Towards Object-Aware Process Management Systems: Issues, Challenges, Benefits
Contemporary workflow management systems (WfMS) offer promising perspectives in respect to comprehensive lifecycle support of business processes. However, there...
A Conceptual Framework for Business Process Redesign
This paper addresses the problem of managing business process change at the level of design-time artifacts, such as BPMN...
Supporting Change in Business Process Models Using Pattern-Based Constraints
When business processes are affected by changes in legal or organisational requirements, the corresponding process models have to be...
Eliciting Goals for Business Process Models with Non-Functional Requirements Catalogues
While traditional approaches in business process modelling tend to focus on “how” the business processes are performed (adopting a...
A Business Process-IT Alignment Method for Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) is becoming a key means of providing information necessary for achieving business goals such as improving...
Atomicity and Normalization
A common aim of data modeling approaches is to produce schemas whose instantiations are always redundancy-free. This is especially...
Analysis and Validation of Control-Flow Complexity Measures with BPMN Process Models
Evaluating the complexity of business processes during the early stages of their development, primarily during the process modelling phase,...
A Modeling Methodology for Empirically Studying User Behavior: The Case of UML Diagram Usage
The use of UML diagrams and associated methodologies in the development of software applications has, on the one hand...
Vertical Alignment of Process Models – How Can We Get There?
There is a wide variety of drivers for business process modelling initiatives, reaching from business evolution and process optimisation...
Modelling Architectural Design Rules in UML
Current techniques for modelling software architecture do not support the modelling of architectural design rules, which are recognized as...
