Primitives: Design Guidelines and Architecture for BPMN Models

The Business Process Modeling Notation has emerged as a popular choice for representing processes among Business Analysts and Information Systems professionals. While the BPMN specification provides a rich syntax for the capture and representation of process models, it does not provide any guidance for the organization of the resulting models. As a consequence, large process libraries may become disorganized and hard to manage due to variability in abstraction levels, process interfaces, and activity descriptions. Based on the analysis of a process library in a US government agency we present a proposal for design guidelines and use our design guideline to qualitatively assess existing work on model quality guidance. To better organize models at different abstraction levels we propose a process architecture that allows for the systematic organization of BPMN models for different stakeholder concerns

The World Anti-Doping Code 2015: ASSER International Sports Law Blog symposium

This article brings together the contributions to a blog symposium on the new World Anti-Doping Code 2015 published on the ASSER International Sports Law Blog in October 2015. The contributions cover a variety of subjects, including the new sanctioning regime, the role of national anti-doping authorities, the working of therapeutic use exemptions and the increasing role played by the notion of intent under the WADC 2015

The World Anti-Doping Code 2015: ASSER International Sports Law Blog symposium

This article brings together the contributions to a blog symposium on the new World Anti-Doping Code 2015 published on the ASSER International Sports Law Blog in October 2015. The contributions cover a variety of subjects, including the new sanctioning regime, the role of national anti-doping authorities, the working of therapeutic use exemptions and the increasing role played by the notion of intent under the WADC 2015

The World Anti-Doping Code 2015: ASSER International Sports Law Blog symposium

This article brings together the contributions to a blog symposium on the new World Anti-Doping Code 2015 published on the ASSER International Sports Law Blog in October 2015. The contributions cover a variety of subjects, including the new sanctioning regime, the role of national anti-doping authorities, the working of therapeutic use exemptions and the increasing role played by the notion of intent under the WADC 2015

DoD Business Mission Area Service-Oriented Architecture to Support Business Transformation

Information Technology (IT) budget. Many of the DoD’s business systems have been in use for years and are straining to support the agility of business operations necessary today. As well, many new systems are being developed on such a scale that it takes nearly a decade to produce the first results. A potential answer to this situation is delivering business capabilities through a service-oriented architecture (SOA) 1. Much of the private sector is rapidly moving in this direction. The question is, will it work for the DoD? This article is about the results of market research conducted by the BMA Chief Technical Officer (CTO) and Chief Architect (CA) over a period of about six months to learn about state-of-the-art SOA and what the DoD can count on from SOA vendors to deliver both business services and SOA infrastructure in the near- to mid-term. The DoD is perhaps the largest and most complex organization in the world, employing nearly 1.4 million people and holding approximately $1.4 trillion in assets. IT spending for business support activities in the DoD BMA—funds to operate, maintain, and modernize busines