In management theory of the last decades, much importance has been attached to a process-oriented perspective on organizational (re)structuring. Yet to date, organizations still experience difficulties in applying this process-oriented perspective to the design and maintenance information systems. The root of the problem lies with a procedural representation of business processes that contains ...

There are many different process meta-models that offer different viewpoints of a same process: activity oriented, product oriented, decision oriented, context oriented and strategy oriented. However, the complementarity between their concepts is not explicit and there is no consensus about the concepts themselves. This problem leads to inadequate process meta-models with organization needs, so...

Fairness is one of the important notion for programming language, such as process algebras like CCS, that includes concurrency (or parallelism) and nondeterminism . This ensures that while repeatedly choosing among a set of alternatives, no alternative will be postponed forever. However, the fairness does not mention at what frequency these alternatives are selected. In this paper, we propose a...

Process oriented views are widely recognized as very useful for modeling, but diicult to implement ee-ciently in a simulation system, as compared to event oriented views. In particular, the complexity and run-time overheads of the implementation have prevented the widespread use of process oriented views in optimistic parallel simulations. Here, we review the conventional approaches to implemen...

This demonstration paper describes the Living Systems Autonomic BPM (LS/ABPM) suite from Whitestein Technologies AG. This unique product consists of several integrated components for modelling, executing and administering business processes using a groundbreaking goal-oriented approach to BPM. A real and current customer case in the domain of Engineering Change Management (ECM), from Daimler AG...

This paper draws on the “human reliability” concept as a structure for gaining insight into the maintenance workforce assessment in a process industry. Human reliability hinges on developing the reliability of humans to a threshold that guides the maintenance workforce to execute accurate decisions within the limits of resources and time allocations. This concept offers a worthwhile point of de...