The world economic image has been changing. It has been a long time since the sole important resources of an organization were financial and physical. In the newly-emerged global economy, knowledge and information are accounted as the most significant resources in order to produce value. Obviously, as the demand for knowledge to reach success is increasing day by day, maintenance and enhancemen...

The main objective of software project management is to assure that a software product will be delivered in time, keeping the cost limits and a proper quality. The key problems are the proper estimation of the effort needed to implement a specific design, the sufficient and effective allocation of resources and the development environment. An appropriate project plan has to have a good or optim...

In this paper, we describe KPMTM, a knowledge-based environment for process design, management, and execution that integrates aspects of process modeling, workflow, and project management. KPM is targeted specifically to domains such as engineering design in which the dynamic and uncertain nature of the processes present management challenges that are unmet by traditional workflow systems. KPM ...

Today, companies are driven by the rate at which technologies change and move towards global enterprises and virtual organizations in order to stay competitive. In global and virtual enterprises, business processes consist of multiple sub-processes that may span multiple time zones, organizational boundaries, and legal domains. Current workflow technology does not provide the necessary function...

Flexible Distributed Business Process Management Vinod Muthusamy Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Toronto 2011 Many large business processes are inherently distributed, spanning multiple organizations, administrative domains, and geographic locations. To support such applications, this thesis develops a flexible and distributed platfo...

Generating direct and indirect customer value is getting more and more important in the business world. To maximize customer value, it is necessary to continuously optimize both internal and external business processes. The following document illustrates the four main phases of the Business Process Life Cycle and the implementation of optimized processes using Workflow-Management Systems. Addit...

«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»...

Nowadays, business supply chains for the production of complex products or services are likely to involve a number of autonomous organizations. The competitive market requires that these supply chains are highly agile, effective and efficient. Agility and effectiveness are obtained by forming highly dynamic virtual enterprises within supplier networks. We call these instant virtual enterprises ...

The focus of presentation is technology management, especially activities for technology adoption and technology transfer. The framework for discussion is process management, which is closely related with quality management. Especially the recent concept of business process re-engineering (BPR) has introduced methods and tools, which are migrating from design and production environment towards ...