today, with ever increasing use of knowledge as a critical resource one of the most important matter that all the organization face is the issue of knowledge management . due to a various efforts for introducing the business process concept to knowledge management (km) or the knowledge concept to business process management (bpm) in order to combine the advantages of the two paradigms, certain ...

Business Process Management (BPM) as a research field integrates di↵erent perspectives from the disciplines computer science, management science and information systems research. Its evolution has by been shaped by the corresponding conferences series, the International Conference on Business Process Management (BPM conference). As much as in other academic discipline, there is an ongoing debat...

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During the past 25 years, research in the field of business process management as well as the practical adoption of corresponding methods and tools have made substantial progress. In particular, this development was driven by the insight that well-managed business processes enable organizations to better serve their stakeholders, save costs and, ultimately, realize competitive advantage. It is ...

It has been quite an interesting year for those monitoring the activities of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). This past year saw the release of Version 1.1 of the Wf-XML interoperability binding, an XML-based standard facilitating consistent data transfer between workflow engines, after substantial collaborative testing and discussion. The WfMC and Business Process Management Initi ati...

This document is intended for introducing the research work carried on by the student Massimiliano de Leoni, who started his Ph.D. program in the XXI cycle. de Leoni’s research work is about devising a Service-Oriented Adaptive Architecture on very dynamic pervasive environments (such as PDAs connected in a Mobile Ad-hoc Network). Section 2 introduces motivations about the importance of such a ...