In den aktuell verfügbaren Methoden zur objektorientierten Softwareentwicklung wird der Modellierung und Implementierung von Geschäftsprozessen nur eine geringe oder keine Bedeutung beigemessen. Daraus resultiert das Problem, daß Anforderungen durch neue oder geänderte Geschäftsprozesse...

Obwohl Koordinationsdefizite in Produktionsplanungs- und -steuerungssystemen (PPS-Systemen) immer noch existieren und mit fortschreitender intraorganisatorischer Kooperation sogar zunehmen, wurden Workflowmanagementsysteme (WfMS) bislang noch nicht erfolgreich zur ganzheitlichen Koordination von...

Process modeling has gained prominence in the information systems modeling area due to its focus on business processes and its usefulness in such business improvement methodologies as Total Quality Management, Business Process Reengineering, and Workflow Management. However, process modeling...

Enterprise systems interoperability (ESI) is an important topic for business currently. This situation is evidenced, at least in part, by the number and extent of potential candidate protocols for such process interoperation, viz., ebXML, BPML, BPEL, and WSCI. Wide-ranging support for each of...

Much research has been devoted over the years to investigating and advancing the techniques and tools used by analysts when they model. As opposed to what academics, software providers and their resellers promote as should be happening, the aim of this research was to determine whether...

Over the last years, significant academic progress has been made in the area of representational analyses that use ontology as a benchmark for evaluations and comparisons of modeling techniques. This paper proposes a research model to guide representational analysis projects, which extends...