Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe the current state of the research field of
business process architecture (BPA) and its design methodologies. Design/methodology …

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 …

Many service identification methods (SIMs) have been proposed to support the
determination of services that are appropriate for use in an SOA. However, these SIMs vary …

Natural language is one of the most important means of human communication. It enables
us to express our will, to exchange thoughts, and to document our knowledge in written …

One of the major challenges for the adoption of the service-oriented architecture (SOA) is the
service identification phase that aims to determine which services are appropriate to be …

Many process model analysis techniques rely on the accurate analysis of the natural
language contents captured in the models' activity labels. Since these labels are typically …

Although several approaches for service identification have been defined in research and
practice, there is a notable lack of fully automated techniques. In this paper, we address the …

Business Intelligence (BI) provides historical, current and predictive views of business
operations with the help of some technologies, that include reporting, online analytical …

Background Blood banks are an important part of healthcare systems. They embrace critical
processes that start with donor recruitment and blood collection, followed by blood …

Service-oriented architectures are a widely used business practice to develop enterprise
information systems. However, the current analysis and design methods consider the …