Purpose–In the last two decades, a proliferation of business process management (BPM)
modeling languages, standards and software systems has given rise to much confusion and …

Workflow technologies are emerging as the dominant approach to coordinate groups of
distributed services. However with a space filled with competing specifications, standards …

7 Business Process Management Architectures Page 1 7 Business Process Management
Architectures Following our discussion of the evolution of enterprise systems architectures in …

Traditional workflow management systems (WFMSs) are not flexible enough to support
loosely-structured processes. Furthermore, flexibility in contemporary WFMSs usually comes …

Management of dynamic processes in an important issue in rapidly changing organizations.
Workflow management systems are systems that use detailed process models to drive the …

An organization produces value for its customers by executing various business processes.
Due to complexity and variety of business processes, contemporary organizations use …

Workflow modeling languages allow for the specification of executable business processes.
They, however, typically do not provide any guidance for the adaptation of workflow models …

The degree of flexibility of workflow management systems heavily influences the way
business processes are executed. Constraint-based models are considered to be more …

This paper presents the realisation, using a Service Oriented Architecture, of an approach
for dynamic flexibility and evolution in workflows through the support of flexible work …

Scientific workflows have recently emerged as a new paradigm for scientists to formalize
and structure complex and distributed scientific processes to enable and accelerate many …