This document provides the speci®cation of the Process Interchange Format (PIF) version 1.2. The goal of this work is to develop an interchange format to help automatically exchange process descriptions among a wide variety of business process modelling and support systems such as work ̄ow software, ̄ow charting tools, planners, process simulation systems and process repositories. Instead of hav...

We focus on a class of models used for representing the dynamics between a discrete set of probabilistic events in a continuous-time setting. The proposed framework offers tractable learning and inference procedures and provides compact state representations for processes which exhibit variable delays between events. The approach is applied to a heart sound labeling task that exhibits long-rang...

The major challenge when integrating information systems in any domain such as e-Government is the challenge of Interoperability. One can distinguish between three aspects of Interoperability; technical, semantic, and organizational. The technical aspect has been widely tackled especially after the ubiquity of internet technologies. The semantic and organizational aspects deal with sharing the ...

Large organizations often run hundreds or even thousands of business processes. Managing such large collections of business processes is a challenging task. Intelligent software can assist in that task by providing common repository functions such as storage, search and version management. They can also provide advanced functions that are specific for managing collections of process models, suc...

Complexity in business processes can be inhibitor of performance and a motivator at the same time. Current studies on business process complexity primarily focus on the structural aspect of process complexity. However given the subjective nature of complexity, it is important to expand the notion beyond the structural dimension so as to provide a more accurate reading of process complexity. In ...

Business process management and improvement are vital for enterprises in competitive environments. Understanding of a process is a pre-requisite and important step for improvement. Interaction between humans, computers, and business objects provide excellent opportunities for knowledge extraction. However, the specification of a framework is required for business process improvement, which exte...

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.

Agile Process Management (APM) is an approach to facilitate flexible execution of business and knowledge work processes by linking process models and business rules. The eGovernment domain is in particular suited for this approach as service provision is well defined by law and other regulations. Moreover only few services are automated yet. This is mainly due to the fact that governmental serv...

Agile Software Development Process (ASDP) has been adopted by many software industries. There exist various methods based on ASDP. Agile methods (AMs) are used mostly in small and low critical projects due to lack of generalized practices. Limited applicability of AMs in distributed environment, life critical system, contract projects and large complex application generated the strong need of g...