Business Process Management (BPM) research resulted in a plethora of methods,
techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management, and analysis of …

Despite their wide range of applications, workflow systems still suffer from lack of an agreed
and standard modelling technique. It is a motivating research area and some researchers …

In many recent object recognition systems, feature extraction stages are generally
composed of a filter bank, a non-linear transformation, and some sort of feature pooling …

In previous chapters we have discussed the architecture of information systems (Chapter 1),
middleware and enterprise application integration (Chapters 2 and 3), and the basics of …

Based on a rigorous analysis of existing workflow management systems and workflow
languages, a new workflow language is proposed: yet another workflow language (YAWL) …

Transactional Information Systems is the long-awaited, comprehensive work from leading
scientists in the transaction processing field. Weikum and Vossen begin with a broad look at …

Today's workflow management systems (WFMS s) are only applicable in a secure and safe
manner if the business process (BP) to be supported is well-structured and there is no need …

Workflow systems seek to provide an implementation vehicle for complex, recurring
business processes. Notwithstanding this common objective, there are a variety of distinct …

Replication is an area of interest to both distributed systems and databases. The solutions
developed from these two perspectives are conceptually similar but differ in many aspects …

An organization produces value for its customers by executing various business processes.
Due to complexity and variety of business processes, contemporary organizations use …