Background: Achieving and maintaining a strategic competitive advantage through business
and technology innovation via continually improving effectiveness and efficiency of the …

Business process models play an important role in today's enterprises, hence, model
repositories may contain hundreds of models. These models are, for example, reused during …

The volume of process-related data is growing rapidly: more and more business operations
are being supported and monitored by information systems. Industry 4.0 and the …

Process orientation of companies in combination with intelligent IT systems often forms the
basis for many modern tendencies such as digitalization. This article analyses current BPM …

The development of modern intelligent systems poses numerous challenges in their
strategic alignment and their effectiveness to a greater extent. Enterprise modelling emerged …

Enterprise architecture (EA) is an integrated strategy, business, and information systems
approach for analysis, governance, and information technology (IT) alignment. It is a …

One of the crucial issues facing enterprise modelling (EM) practices is that EM is considered
technical, and rarely or never has a social focus. Social aspects referred to here are the soft …

Process modeling has become an essential part of many organizations for documenting,
analyzing and redesigning their business operations and to support them with suitable …

Although automation and data processing in workflows are fundamental objectives of
business process management (BPM), many different new catchwords are discussed in the …

Process model element labels are critical for an appropriate association between a symbol
instance in a model and the corresponding real world meaning. Disciplines, in which an …