One of the central activities in developing requirements for business processes is that of modelling the constituent parts of both existing and future processes. This position paper examines requirements engineering issues for business processes in terms of the nature of the problem domain and of the development activities. The paper proposes a modelling framework which, in addition to the trad...

New forms of cooperation like collaborative business scenarios require a deep but flexible integration of enterprises. In order to manage interorganizational business processes, existing concepts for business process management need to be adapted and extended. In this paper a framework is presented, that shows how cross-enterprise processes can be planned, implemented and controlled. The framew...

The number of BPM products available has increased substantially in the last years, so that choosing among these products became a difficult task for potential BPM users. This paper defines a framework for evaluating BPM products, and discusses how this framework has been applied in the development of an open and objective evaluation method for these products. Our framework has been developed b...

In this paper we propose an abstract framework to model the deontic notions relevant for business process compliance. In particular, we provide a comprehensive classification of the obligation types relevant for modelling whether a process is compliant, and we describe their semantics in terms of execution traces.

Business Process Reengineering has gained a considerable attention in the world of change management during the past years. While more and more organizations embark on the BPR trend it can be concluded, that the theoretical bedrock for BPR falls rather short of the concepts ambition of being a solution for a multiplicity of problems that many companies suffer from. This thesis is intended to pr...

As organizations gain awareness of the potential business value locked in their process execution event logs, “evidence-based” business process management (BPM) becomes a common tool for process analysts. In contrast to traditional process monitoring techniques which are typically performed using data from running process instances only, predictive evidence-based BPM methods tap also into histo...

The redesign of business processes has a huge potential in terms of reducing costs and throughput times, as well as improving customer satisfaction. Despite rapid developments in the business process management discipline during the last decade, a comprehensive overview of the options to methodologically support a team to move from as-is process insights to to-be process alternatives is lacking...

Purpose – The paper aims to present the design rationale, the structure and the use of a web-based information systems framework for collaborative business process modelling. Design/methodology/approach – By viewing process modelling as a “problematic situation” that entails a considerable amount of social and knowledge activity in order to be resolved, a novel process modelling construct has b...

In today's business climate, the need to be flexible, agile and highly responsive to market changes is leading many enterprises to rely increasingly on novel Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Any change to business models & business processes should be supported by the rules on how the business is put together, and by the corresponding ability of the underlying IT infrastructure...

We present a formal framework for enterprise and business process modeling The concepts of our framework objectives and goals roles and actors actions and processes responsibil ities and constraints allow business analysts to capture enterprise knowledge in a way that is both intuitive and mathematically formal We also outline the basic steps of a methodology that allows business analysts to pr...