Rapid business changes require companies to make rapid changes in business processes and ultimately in BPS systems. These changes can be done rapidly if business modelers understand the base roles of business processes and relationships between these roles. In this paper we present an alternative to the traditional business processes modeling approaches. In our approach we make explicit roles p...

Existing process modelling languages and especially executable process modelling languages are not designed for business users without programming knowledge. We therefore propose a novel Lightweight Process Modelling seeking to lower the entrance barrier for modelling executable processes. In this sense lightweight applies to the user interaction and means easy to understand in the context of t...

In this paper we present a novel approach for the verification of a business process configuration. The approach is formal, so that logic mechanisms are used in the verification process. The approach has been applied in the scope of the project ATHENA for the verification of cross organizational

Runtime adaptability is a desired quality attribute in business processes, particularly cross-organizational ones. Past work showed that designing and implementing business processes following the REpresentational State Transfer (REST) principles increases runtime adaptability. However, the past solutions for RESTful business processes (RESTfulBP) were limited to manual selection of process fra...

Business coordination is a very active research area, in which the decision-making process of an enterprise is non-trivial. In this paper, we focus on coordination process that involves a third party or mediator, which we call Mediated Business Coordination (MBC). We argue that business rules play an important role in the decision processes involved in MBC. We describe the decision processes in...

Purpose – In recent decades, supply chains have diverged and new types of services and operators have emerged in the logistics sector. The purpose of this paper is to focus on analyzing service strategies and service-related business models, as well as their modular business processes in logistic services. The aims are to describe these three levels and to match strategic service positioning wi...

Web Services provide a suitable technical foundation for making business processes accessible within and across enterprises. The business logic encapsulated inside Web Services often resides in already existing transactional backend-systems. However, the scope of these systems is normally limited to their domain and is not distributed across heterogeneous environments. In this paper, we investi...

While business process models describe business operations in a procedural form, business rules are typically expressed in a declarative fashion. Previous studies have demonstrated that both approaches are complementary as they address distinct aspects of organizational practices. However, both approaches share areas of overlap that allow for the linkage of rule bases and process models. Curren...

When dealing with complex business processes (e.g., in the context of a workflow implementation or the configuration of some process-aware information system), it is important but sometimes difficult to determine whether a process contains any errors. Cancellation and OR-joins are important features that are common in many business processes. The presence of cancellation and OR-joins makes it d...