Over past several years, there have been increasing needs for more efficient approaches to the design and implementation of inter-organizational business processes. The process collaboration spanning organizational boundaries is deemed to keep the organization autonomy, which means each organization owns its freedom of modifying internal operations to meet their private goals while satisfying t...

Providing merging techniques for business processes fosters the management and maintenance of (large) process model repositories. Contrary to existing approaches that focus on preserving behavior of all participating process models, this paper presents a merging technique that aims at preserving the difference between the participating process models by exploiting the existence of a common pare...

ABSTRACT The purpose of the present study was to analyze whether and how students working in the collaborative learning environment (Future Learning Environment, FLE2) were able to share their design process with the intended user of the product. We organized a collaborative design course in which six teams of first-year university-level textile students (N=24) solved an authentic and complex d...

eXtreme Programming (XP) is a lightweight software development methodology based on the widely recognized and effective paradigms of code inspections, iterative spiral development, integrated product development teams (i.e., full-time customer involvement), frequent builds, programmer teams (i.e., pair programming), design patterns, re-factoring, coding standards, risk analysis, and regression ...