Enhancing Flexibility and Precision ofEnterprise Architectures by ModelingContext-Aware Business Processes

Business Process Models form a major part of enterprise architectures. In times of shortproduct cycles and international competition, organizations are forced to react quickly onchanging surrounding conditions. The definition of an enterprise architecture and especiallybusiness process models are not only “nice to have” but crucial. To enhance flexibility andprecision of enterprise architectures, which mostly contain static business process models in anearly isolated way, the modeling of context-aware business processes is discussed in thisresearch report. The methodical framework employed is the Semantic Object Modeldeveloped by FERSTL/SINZ (Ferstl and Sinz 2006)...