Web 2.0 Enhanced Automation of Collaborative Business Process Model Management in Cooperation Environments

In today’s business, effective enterprise cooperation and efficient utilization of appropriate information technology are basic prerequisites for the success of individual companies and networks. This means that the process-oriented management has to offer adequate support for collaboration. This article shows how monolithic business process management can be enhanced considering the Web 2.0 paradigm. The concept is carried out with a platform for collaborative business process management which integrates functions for cooperative model management and for using collective intelligence

Laboratory experiments as evaluating method for IT artifacts – Experimental design and use case within a Product-Service-System

According to the paradigm of Design Science Research, IT artifacts are developed and built to solve real-life problems that occur in business life. Since Design Science Research consists of two phases, it is divided in the building and the evaluation phase. The evaluation phase is considered to be highly important as it analyses the relevance and the functionality of the artifact. To evaluate if an artifact meets the users’ needs, experiments are a possible method. Based on findings in a current research project, we present an experiment design to evaluate artifacts being part of Product-Service-Systems. The design is applied in a use case and supplemented by statistical data to analyze how the artifact meets the users’ needs

Process Oriented Collaboration in Grid-Environments: A Case Study in the Construction Industry

This paper addresses the process-oriented collaboration based on a grid-based platform for the support of virtual organizations (VO), illustrated on the example of the construction industry. Distributed, organizational and IT-structures of teams involved in vintage complex projects cannot be managed with conventional methods in an appropriate manner. Both using a grid platform and grid-based services, in conjunction with semantic methods for consistency saving and goal-oriented process management can increase the efficiency of collaboration processes in large-scale projects. A hybrid grid- and web service-based architecture for the next generation of VO service and a gateway solution was developed integrating the process-oriented perspective and prototypically implemented. The problem, as well as the solution on the basis of the hybrid system architecture combing the benefits of the cutting-edge technologies, the methodical concept for modeling VO processes and their automated execution on a grid platform are discussed in detail

Thomas, Dollmann & Loos Towards Enhanced Business Process Models ABSTRACT Towards Enhanced Business Process Models Based on Fuzzy Attributes and Rules

In business process management, decision situations are often characterized by fuzziness. This means that the decision premises are not available in the form of mathematic models or numeric values, but rather as fuzzy conditions, such as “low processing time ” or “high quality”. This article will show how fuzzy conditions and vaguely formulated goals in business process models can be considered using the fuzzy set theory. This fuzzy-extension of process modeling is carried out with the event-driven process chain