Speeding up knowledge-intensive core processes in engineering and increasing the quality of their results is becoming more and more decisive, since the economic pressure from national and international competitors and customers is rising. In particular, these demands exceed the organizational and infrastructural capacities of small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) by far. Hence, combining com...

Unlike traditional assembly lines, service-oriented processes require individualized and timely information during the execution of steps or phases. This paper discusses the Multi-layered Analytical Knowledge Organization (MAKO) Just-in-Time Process Model (JITPM), which is a framework and methodology for building service-oriented processes that are interrelated to an organizational knowledge ba...

SPSPR (S-Strategy, P-Business Processes, S-ICT Services, P-ICT Processes, R-ICT Resources) is a layered framework that is used to represent the relationship between business management and ICT management in the context of cloud computing. This research article applies the advanced object-oriented techniques and develops a fundamental object-oriented SPSPR-Model including four basic design patte...

In this paper we consider a refinement of the concept of mobile processes in a process oriented language. More specifically, we investigate the possibility of allowing resumption of suspended mobile processes with different interfaces. This is a refinement of the approach taken currently in languages like occam-π. The goal of this research is to implement varying resumption interfaces in Proces...

In Service Oriented systems organisational processes are represented as WS-BPEL workflows, WS-BPEL is different from traditional workflow languages as a hybrid of block-based and graph-based language; it also has limited support for separation of concerns. Changes to such processes usually impact many places in the underlying system, without separating such cross-cutting concerns system mainten...

Two approaches, resource-oriented and constraint-oriented, for structuring telephone systems specifications, are presented. Both approaches express behaviour by collections of communicating processes, using the language LOTOS. However, requirements are distributed differently among processes. Examples are taken from specifications of telephone systems, first basic, and then with features. The f...

Petri nets are widely accepted as a process modeling technique with formal semantics and mathematical foundation. They are well suitable for modeling (business) processes in executable form and for analyzing process models through simulative validation and formal verification. Nevertheless, there are currently only a small number of Petri net based tools available for developing process-oriente...

Business domain has always been competitive. Adaptability to changes in business processes is mandatory to keep business organizations ahead in competition. Information system is a fundamental tool to manage business processes. Information system should be adaptable to accommodate changes in business processes and should be context-sensitive to give more personalized perspective to information ...

Previous research suggested that the performance of interorganisational processes can be influenced by eight factors: stakeholders, competition, information technology, market network design, perceived risk, process design, information, and trust. This paper specifically focuses on the consequences of market network redesign for interorganisational processes. A distinction is made between trans...