7 Business Process Management Architectures Page 1 7 Business Process Management
Architectures Following our discussion of the evolution of enterprise systems architectures in …

With the advancement of GIS technology since its inception in 1960's, many educational
institutions, government departments, public/private sectors and individuals have started its …

Workflow nets, a particular class of Petri nets, have become one of the standard ways to
model and analyze workflows. Typically, they are used as an abstraction of the workflow that …

CONTEXT: Business Process Management (BPM) is a potential domain in which Software
Product Line (PL) can be successfully applied. Including the support of Service-oriented …

Service-oriented computing, an emerging paradigm for architecting and implementing
business collaborations within and across organizational boundaries, is currently of interest …

Abstract In Process-Aware Information Systems, business processes are often modeled in
an explicit way. Roughly speaking, the available business process modeling languages can …

Abstract A Process-Aware Information System (PAIS) is a software system that manages and
executes operational processes involving people, applications, and/or information sources …

Many novel application scenarios and architectures in business process management or
service composition are characterized by a distribution of activities and resources, and by …

To implement an interorganizational process between different enterprizes, one needs to
agree on the 'rules of engagement'. These can be specified in terms of a contract that …

As systems become more service oriented and processes increasingly cross organizational
boundaries, interaction becomes more important. New technologies support the …