Towards a Consistent Cross-Disciplinary Ontology for Business Process
This paper takes a cross-disciplinary view of the ontology of “business process”: how the concept is treated in the...
A Data-Centric Approach for Business Process Improvement Based on Decision Theory
An efficient business process redesign is an ambitious research and implementation challenge for both academia and industry. Traditional approaches...
A Criteria Catalogue for Evaluating Business Process Pattern Approaches
Process models are an important element of business process management. Modelling and management of these models can be supported...
Understanding the Factors That Influence the Adoption of BPM in Two Brazilian Public Organizations
While the increasing interest in BPM by private and public organizations confirm the relevance of process-centric philosophy, it also...
Using Fractal Process-Asset Model to Design the Process Architecture of an Enterprise: Experience Report
The Fractal Process-Asset (FPA) model has been proposed as an approach for identifying business processes and defining relationships between...
Support for Domain Constraints in the Validation of Ontologically Well-Founded Conceptual Models
In order to increase the accuracy of conceptual models, graphical languages such as UML are often enriched with textual...
Category Structure of Language Types Common to Conceptual Modeling Languages
We investigate the category structure of categories common to conceptual modeling languages (i.e., the types used by languages such...
Model Comprehension and Stakeholder Appropriateness of Security Risk-Oriented Modelling Languages
Modelling and management of the security risks from the early stages of information systems development could help to envision...
Classification and Qualitative Analysis of Non-Functional Requirements Approaches
A considerable number of methods and tools have been proposed for the treatment of non-functional requirements (NFRs). There is...
Incremental Method Enactment for Computer Aided Software Engineering Tools
In most cases, enactment is the most resource consuming aspect of process improvement, as large process changes are put...
