Abstract Representation theory proposes that the basic purpose of an information system
(IS) is to faithfully represent certain real-world phenomena, allowing users to reason about …

Enterprise Systems (ES) are comprehensive off-the-shelf packages that have to be
configured to suit the requirements of an organization. Most ES solutions provide reference …

Business process modeling plays an important role in the management of business
processes. As valuable design artifacts, business process models are subject to quality …

A clear and unambiguous definition of the design concept would be useful for developing a
cumulative tradition for research on design. In this article we suggest a formal definition for …

Alignment is a very wide subject that can be used to support an organization's information
system. Many authors have dealt with this topic according to various dimensions, including …

This paper gives an extended abstract of my doctoral thesis on detection and prediction of
errors in EPC business process models (see [Men07]). 1 This research is motivated by the …

With a steady increase of regulatory requirements for business processes, automation
support of compliance management is a field garnering increasing attention in Information …

Traditional information systems struggle with the requirement to provide flexibility and
process support while still enforcing some degree of control. Accordingly, adaptive Process …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the transformation of logistics processes to
meet requirements of Industrie 4.0. Design/methodology/approach The authors follow the …

Deduplicating in-line data on primary storage is hampered by the disk bottleneck problem,
an issue which results from the need to keep an index mapping portions of data to hash …