Designing business process models plays a vital role in business process management.
The acquisition of such models may consume up to 60% of the project time. This time can be …

We describe a formally well founded approach to link data and processes conceptually,
based on adopting UML class diagrams to represent data, and BPMN to represent the …

There are many processes in the business world which are dependent on Critical
Infrastructure Systems (CISs) to provide important services. Hence, undesirable behaviors of …

Nowadays, uncertainty is widely discussed as serious a challenge against business
decision-making. The current business process management systems (BPMSs) are only …

As service design has gained interest in the last years, so has gained one of its primary
tools: the Service Blueprint. In essence, a service blueprint is a graphical tool for the design …

Many organizations use business processes as a tool to realize and sustain competitive
advantage in the market. A business process is a structured collection of activities with …

Hybrid modeling approaches have been proposed to represent processes that have both
strictly regulated parts and loosely regulated parts. Such process is so-called Knowledge …

Configuration techniques have been used in several fields, such as the design of business
process models. Sometimes these models depend on the data dependencies, being easier …

Through constraints, declarative process models represent the permitted behaviour
associated with a business process, by limiting the potential correct traces. These models …

Recognizing competitive strategies, the retail industry must anticipate business risks.
Business risk is related to managerial risk, and it depends on its ability to adapt its policies to …