In this research report we study service coordination, which is a crucial aspect when services are combined into service-based systems (Metzger & Pohl, 2009).Coordination is not only in computer science an important research topic. It is also studied in disciplines such as organization theory,...

Recently, Business Process Management (BPM) has gained a lot of attention both from the academic world and the industrial world. The similarities between workflow management and business process management can make one wonder whether it's all old wine in new bottles. But although there are many...

In order to realize successful Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) the parties involved should agree on a number of business and ICT-related issues. These agreements may be based on bilateral discussions or on proprietary or open standards. The appropriateness of using standards depends on...

Web services are a recent, Internet based technology to integrate applications and business processes within a single company and across multiple companies. This paper first sketches the basic principles that underlie web services and then proposes an event based integration approach, where...

Het ontwikkelen van kwalitatief hoogstaande informatiesystemen is verre van gemakkelijk. De kwaliteit van informatiesystemen begint bij de kwaliteit van de specificaties. In dit domein is er nog veel ruimte voor verbetering. In dit artikel illustreren we hoe bedrijfsmodellering kan bijdragen tot...

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a coherent whole of principles, methods, and models that are used in the design and realization of an enterprise’s organizational structure, business processes, information systems, and infrastructure. Recent research indicates the need for EA in small and...

Business processes (e.g. supply chains) are at the heart of organisations by describing their way of working. Globalisation, higher competitiveness, more demanding customers, growing IT possibilities, etc.; all those challenges put pressure on organisations to perform better, and thus to obtain...

Successful E-Business is based on seamless collaborative business processes. Each partner in the collaboration specifies its own rules and interaction preconditions. The verification of the compatibility of collaborative business processes, based on local and global views, is a complex task,...