Over the last decade there has been a shift from “data-aware” information systems to
“process-aware” information systems. To support business processes an enterprise …

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 …

The Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) is the de-facto standard for representing
in a very expressive graphical way the processes occurring in virtually every kind of …

Based on a rigorous analysis of existing workflow management systems and workflow
languages, a new workflow language is proposed: yet another workflow language (YAWL) …

Due to the web services' heterogeneous nature, which stems from the definition of several
XML-based standards to overcome platform and language dependence, web services have …

Abstract The Workflow Patterns Initiative was established with the aim of delineating the
fundamental requirements that arise during business process modelling on a recurring basis …

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

In this paper we examine the suitability of the Business Process Modelling Notation (BPMN)
for business process modelling, using the Workflow Patterns as an evaluation framework …

The need for process support in the context of web services has triggered the development
of many languages, systems, and standards. Industry has been developing software …

Web service composition refers to the creation of new (Web) services by combining
functionalities provided by existing ones. A number of domain-specific languages for service …