Blockchain technology offers a sizable promise to rethink the way interorganizational
business processes are managed because of its potential to realize execution without a …

It may be tempting for researchers to stick to incremental extensions of their current work to
plan future research activities. Yet there is also merit in realizing the grand challenges in …

Business process models play an important role in today's enterprises, hence, model
repositories may contain hundreds of models. These models are, for example, reused during …

This book starts with an introduction to process modeling and process paradigms, then
explains how to query and analyze process models, and how to analyze the process …

Many organizations maintain textual process descriptions alongside graphical process
models. The purpose is to make process information accessible to various stakeholders …

Process model matching refers to the automatic identification of correspondences between
the activities of process models. Application scenarios of process model matching reach …

Nowadays, business processes are increasingly supported by IT services that produce
massive amounts of event data during the execution of a process. These event data can be …

Text-based and model-based process descriptions have their own particular strengths and,
as such, appeal to different stakeholders. For this reason, it is not unusual to find within an …

Strategic alignment is a mechanism by which an organization can visualize the relationship
between its business processes and strategies. It enables organizational decision makers to …

Process modeling has become an essential part of many organizations for documenting,
analyzing and redesigning their business operations and to support them with suitable …