Process-aware information systems (PAIS) allow coordinating the execution of business processes by providing the right tasks to the right people at the right time. In order to support a broad spectrum of business processes, PAIS must be flexible at run-time. Ad-hoc deviations from the predefined process schema as well as the quick adaptation of the process schema itself due to changes of the un...

«Event-Driven Business Process Management» (EDBPM) is a combination of actually two different disciplines: Business Process Management (BPM) and Complex Event Processing (CEP). In this paper we present a general framework for EDBPM as well as first use cases in the context of logistics and financial services. 1. EVENT-DRIVEN BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT «Event-Driven Business Process Management»...

Currently, there are two mainstream process modelling paradigms: the traditional activity-centric approach and the recent artefact-centric approach. Several approaches have been proposed for configuration of traditional activity-centric business processes; however, to the best of our knowledge, few approaches have been developed for artefact-centric business processes. This paper fills this gap...

successor planning process in family businesses is recognized as one of the most important phases of family business lifecycle. family businesses play a vital role in developing regional and global economy and fuel the creation of new jobs, new business growth and increase in entrepreneurial activities. in this study, it was attempted to investigate the impact of family business characteristics...

this research has been conducted due to changing of organizations' operating environment and the need of radical change in short time to facilitate the match between market opportunities and corporate capabilities. as hammer and champy found that 50-70% of attempts have been failed to deliver intended dramatic results, a preevaluation by less time and less costly from the current process d...

Business professionals create business process models in order to get an understanding of who is involved and which resources are needed for the execution of a business process. Such business process models are required as a basis for knowledge transfer, quality purposes, regulations, communication between internal and external collaborative partners, or documentation in general. Current proces...

Evidence-based BPM has gained significant momentum in recent years, thanks to the widespread adoption of enterprise systems that store detailed business process execution data in event logs. Techniques for analyzing business processes using event logs are termed “process mining” techniques. Their objective is to aid business analysts in improving business processes by learning knowledge from ma...

Information systems are becoming more and more intertwined with the operational processes in most organizations. As a result, a multitude of events are recorded by today’s information systems. The goal of process mining is to use these event data to extract processrelated information, e.g., to automatically discover a process model by observing events recorded by some enterprise system. This in...