Business Process Management: Models, Techniques, and Empirical Studies

by Wil van der Aalst (Editor)

Design of Business Processes.- Techniques for Modelling Workflows and their Support of Reuse.- Modeling Processes and Workflows by Business Rules.- Guidelines of Business Process Modeling.- A Knowledge-Based Approach for Designing Robust Business Processes.- The "Organized Activity" Foundation for Business Processes and Their Management.- Evaluation of Generic Process Design An Experimental Study.- Management-Oriented Models of Business Processes.- Formalisms and Analysis.- Validation of Process Models by Construction of Process Nets.- Modeling, Simulation and Analysis of Business Processes.- Using Formal Analysis Techniques in Business Process Redesign.- Workflow Finding Control-Flow Errors Using Petri-Net-Based Techniques.- Compositional modeling and verification of workflow processes.- A Workflow Change is a Workflow.- Improving Flexibility of workflow Management Systems.- Inter-operability of Workflow Local Criteria for Global Soundness.- Object Oriented Petri Nets in Business Process Modeling.- Systems and Applications.- Information Gathering and Process Modeling in a Petri Net Based Approach.- Why Modellers Wreck Workflow Innovations.- The Effects of Workflow Systems on A Qualitative Study.- On the Practical Relevance of an Integrated Workflow Management System - Results of an Empirical Study.- Configurable Business Objects for Building Evolving Enterprise Models and Applications.- Workflow Management between Formal Theory and Pragmatic Approaches.- Documentary Petri A Modeling Representation for Electronic Trade Procedures.- ARIS Architecture and Reference Models for Business Process Management.

404 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003