Business process management (BPM) has emerged as a dominant technology in current enterprise systems and business solutions. However, business processes are always evolving in current dynamic business environments where requirements and goals are constantly changing. Whereas literature reports...

Current enterprise systems rely heavily on the modelling and enactment of business processes. One of the key criteria for a business process is to represent not just the behaviours of the participants but also how the contractual relationships among them evolve over the course of an interaction....

It is a typical scenario that many organisations have their business processes specified independently of their business obligations (which includes contractual obligations to business partners, as well as obligations a business has to fulfil against regulations and industry standards). This is...

It is a typical scenario that many organisations have their business processes specified independently of their business obligations (which includes contractual obligations to business partners, as well as obligations a business has to fulfil against regulations and industry standards). This is...

Process is perennial. Within any business activity or enterprise it is crucial that the variable of "operational efficiency" is maintained at sufficiently high levels, such that the return on investment is sustainable enough to justify its continued existence. Business Process Management (BPM)...

According to Gartner, human data-entry errors, and lack of proper corporate data standards result in more than 25 percent of critical data used in large corporations to be flawed. While the issue of data quality is as old as data itself, it is now exposed at a much more strategic level, e.g....

In the current heavily regulated business world, organisations struggle to establish a consistent view of their policies and operating procedures. These are generally captured through process modeling and business rule modeling, resulting in separate representations of rules and actual practice....