Advances in Enterprise Engineering I

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Process Modeling

   1. On the Nature of Business Rules

      • Jan L. G. Dietz

      Pages 1-15

   2. Process Flexibility: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches

      • Helen Schonenberg, Ronny Mans, Nick Russell, Nataliya Mulyar, Wil van der Aalst

      Pages 16-30

   3. Subsuming the BPM Life Cycle in an Ontological Framework of Designing

      • Udo Kannengiesser

      Pages 31-45

   4. Information Gathering for Semantic Service Discovery and Composition in Business Process Modeling

      • Norman May, Ingo Weber

      Pages 46-60

3. Collaboration and Interoperability

   1. Challenges in Collaborative Modeling: A Literature Review

      • Michiel Renger, Gwendolyn L. Kolfschoten, Gert-Jan de Vreede

      Pages 61-77

   2. A Petri-Net Based Formalisation of Interaction Protocols Applied to Business Process Integration

      • Djamel Benmerzoug, Fabrice Kordon, Mahmoud Boufaida

      Pages 78-92

4. Enterprise Architecture

   1. Competencies and Responsibilities of Enterprise Architects

      • Claudia Steghuis, Erik Proper

      Pages 93-107

   2. Interoperability Strategies for Business Agility

      • Mats-Åke Hugoson, Thanos Magoulas, Kalevi Pessi

      Pages 108-121

   3. Towards a Business-Oriented Specification for Services

      • Linda Terlouw

      Pages 122-136

5. Model Transformation and Simulation

   1. Automated Model Transformations Using the C.C Language

      • Vojtěch Merunka, Oldřich Nouza, Jiří Brožek

      Pages 137-151

   2. Improvement in the Translation Process from Natural Language to System Dynamics Models

      • Yutaka Takahashi

      Pages 152-163

   3. Developing a Simulation Model Using a SPEM-Based Process Model and Analytical Models

      • Seunghun Park, Hyeonjeong Kim, Dongwon Kang, Doo-Hwan Bae

      Pages 164-178

   4. Formal Modeling and Discrete-Time Analysis of BPEL Web Services

      • Radu Mateescu, Sylvain Rampacek

      Pages 179-193

6. Back Matter

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The expectation for the future of the 21st century enterprise is complexity and agility. In this digital age, business processes are scattered not only throu- out the labyrinth of their own enterprises, but also across di?erent enterprises, and even beyond the national boundaries. An evidence of this is the gr- ing phenomenon of business process outsourcing. Increasing competition, higher customer demands, and emerging technologies require swift adaptation to the changes. To understand, design, and engineer a modern enterprise (or an enterprise network) and its interwoven business processes, an engineering and systematic approach based on sound and rigorous theories and methodologies is necessary. Along with that, a paradigmshift seems to be needed for addressing these issues adequately. An appealing candidate is to look at an enterprise and its business processes as a social system. In its social setting, an enterprise and its bu- ness processes represent actors with certain authorities and assigned roles, who assume certain responsibilities in order to provide a service to its environment. The need for this paradigm shift along with the complexity and agility of modern enterprises, gives inspiration for the emerging discipline of Enterprise Engineering. For the study of this socio-technical phenomenon, the prominent tools ofModeling andSimulation play a signi?cant role.Both (conceptual) m- eling and simulationare widely used for understanding,analyzing,andengine- ing an enterprise (its organization and business processes).

• Business Process Management
• Business Rules
• Enterprise Architecture
• Model Transformation
• Process Modeling
• Service Composition
• Service Interoperability
• modeling
• organization
• simulation
• tools

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