Advanced modelling methodologies -- Modern business process languages -- Process models in dynamic environments -- Enriching process models and enactment architectures -- Business process management in organizations -- Improving business processes

Business managers are striving to move toward process-centric organizations, but the challenge remains in ensuring adoption of a business process culture. This book aids managers in the transformation of organizations into world-class competitors through business process applications. A useful...

With continual computer advances in the information technology age, information systems have become an integral part of many disciplines. Business, medicine, geography, aviation, forensics, agriculture, even traffic lights all have one thing in common: computers. This book provides original...

Drawing on recently published data, this report examines some of the trends in travel e-commerce. Using a case study approach, the author examines in detail some of the e-business models impacting on the travel industry both in the Business-to-Business (B2B) and Business-to-Consumer (B2C)...

Liberalisation of telecommunications encourages competition between the various actors in the Open Service Market (OSM). In this highly competitive context, Connectivity Service Providers (CSPs) and Value Added Service Providers (VASPs) are investigating opportunities to provide differentiated...

This paper presents a model, which allows managers to identify the influence of their decisions to the potential innovation activity of the firm by simulation. Systems Thinking methodology has been used to understand the framework of innovation systems and to design and run the simulation model....

This paper is concerned with optimizing financial programs through the use of performance models to promote the best use of available computational resources, The work necessarily focuses on run-time optimization, where a performance model of the program is combined with knowledge of run-time...