Business processes present business logic of enterprises and or web services. In current Internet based dynamic business environment, business logic and resource allocation may have to change more frequently than before to match various business conditions in time. Business process deployment is a very costly procedure. It is desirable that a business process reengineering action could be verif...

Background: The importance of business ethics and the impact of ethics on organizational performance, product quality and ultimately customer satisfaction, has found a new and innovative place in management issues, so the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of business ethics on promoting quality. Method: The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlati...

The unpredictability of business activities means that business process management should provide a way to adapt to change. The traditional workflow approach, based on predefined process logic, offers little support for today’s complex and dynamic business environment. Therefore, a cognitive approach is proposed to help manage complex business activities, based on continuous awareness of situat...

Business processes emphasize the capture of best practices and improvement of business activities. A dynamic process aims to deal with a dynamic environment where processes have to change and adapt to respond to unexpected events and situations that have not been anticipated. Dynamic process change currently focuses on mechanisms and engines for dynamic process specification and execution. Howe...

We focus our attention on the problem of sequencing jobs in a permutation flow shop with the objective of minimising the sum of completion times or flowtime. This objective is considered to be more relevant and meaningful for today’s dynamic production environment, and therefore it has attracted the attention of researchers during the last years. As a result, a number of different types of heur...