Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- Contents -- Preface -- Performability-Oriented Description and Analysis of Business Processes -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. BPM Backgound Concepts -- 2.1 BPM and Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs) -- 2.2 Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) -- 2.3 Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) -- 3. Performability-Enabled BPMN (PyBPMN) -- 3.1 Metamodel Extension Process -- 3.2 BPMN Metamodel -- 3.3 PyBPMN Metamodel -- 4. PyBPMN-Based Performability Prediction of Business Processes -- 4.1 Performance Prediction -- 4.2 Reliability Prediction -- 4.3 Performability Prediction -- 5. Example Application -- Conclusions -- References -- Conceptualizing, Analyzing and Communicating the Business Model -- Abstract -- Introduction -- The Business Model Concept and a Definition -- Conceptualizing the Business Model -- Which Parameters do we need to Understand? -- Analyzing the Business Model -- The Analytical Guideline -- Communicating the Business Model -- Good Advice on Conceptualizing, Analyzing and Communicating the Business Model -- 1. Describe the Strategy Platform -- 2. Create a Connecting Story of Value Creation -- 3. Focus on the Connections and the Interrelations -- 4. Be Explicit about the Organisation's Whereabouts in the Value Chain -- 5. Avoid Empty Expressions and Buzz-Words -- 6. Be aware that Transparency has Different Meanings -- 7. The Broad Information Channels have the Highest Influence on Transparency -- 8. Use the Spread in Consensus Estimates as a Measure of IR Success -- 9. Explain the Business Model as a Forward Oriented Statement -- 10. Establish Trust in the Communication through the use of Performance Measures -- Conclusion -- References -- Business Process Modeling and Automation with General and Domain Specific Languages -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction.

2. The Spectrum of Business Process Languages -- 2.1. The Gap between Modeling and Execution -- 2.2. Integrating Process Languages with Additional Concerns -- 2.3. A Domain Specific Process Language -- 3. Software Architectures for Supporting Business Processes -- 3.1. Multi-platform Architecture for Modeling and Executing Processes -- 3.1.1. Process Management Subsystems -- 3.1.2. Subsystems Involved in a Typical Scenario -- 3.2. Multi-domain Architecture for Business Processes -- 3.2.1. The Business Process Composite Domain -- 3.2.2. Composition of Control Domain -- 4. Business Process Automation -- 4.1. Automation Based on Successive Transformations of Models -- 4.2. Automation Based on Direct Interpretation of Models -- Conclusion -- References -- Towards Concise Architectures -- for Flexible Business Processes -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Artefacts -- 3. Designing -- 3.1. Architecture -- 3.2. Implementation -- 3.3. Adaptation -- 4. Issues in Current Process Models -- 4.1. Complexity -- 4.2. Flexibility -- 5. Towards a Feature-Based Approach -- G-S275 -- 6. Related Work -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Context-Aware Methods for Process Modeling -- Abstract -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Motivating Example -- 3. Context-Aware Methods to Support Process Modeling -- 3.1 Preliminaries -- 3.2 Global and Local Views on Processes -- 3.3 A Context-Aware Modeling Method -- 4. An Illustration of the Artifacts -- 5. Discussion -- Conclusion -- References -- Modeling and Analysis of Business Processes with Business Rules -- Optimal Capacity Planning and Performance Evaluation in a Process-Based Business with the Consideration of System Failures -- Index.