It is now possible to gain competitive advantages based on consolidated R/3 system implementations. One of the most important optimisation aspects is a more consistent process integration in order to bring about fast, secure and cost effective business processes. This approach inevitably leads...

Businesses consist of processes and strive for excellence in business processes. There are different communities addressing business processes, each with its own objectives, tools and terminology-business process reengineering, business process modeling, business process management, workflow...

To facilitate designing and maintaining collections of business process models and corresponding implementation documents, it is of pivotal relevance to identify commonalities that a set of process types share. They allow for reusing parts of process models and are a prerequisite of efficient...