[2002-nov PDF]

Bider I., Johannesson, P., Perjons, E.: "Goal-oriented Patterns for  Business Processes", position paper for Workshop on Goal-Oriented Business Process Modelling, London (2002)

Abstract:
Organizations of today are becoming ever more focused on their business processes. This has resulted in an increasing interest in business process patterns, which can be used in order to understand where from one can adopt best practices, or how to build computer systems supporting business processes. However, to fully exploit patterns, they need to be defined in a structured, and even formal way. This paper proposes to explore the state-oriented approach for defining and formalizing patterns based on the notion of goal rather than the sequence of events/activities.

 [2002-sept, .PDF]

Professor Paul Johannesson, Maria Bergholtz, Prasad Jayaweera and Petia Wohed has provided a paper, “Process Models and Business Models a Unified Framework”, that has been submitted to and accepted at the ECOMO conference. The paper includes an analysis of ebXML, UMM and REA. [.PDF]

Abstract.
In e-Commerce, there are two fundamental types of models, businessmodels and process models. A business model is concerned with value exchanges among business partners, while a process model focuses on operational and procedural aspects of business communication. Thus, a business model defines the what in an e-Commerce system, while a process model defines the how. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the contents of business models and process models and to show how they can be integrated. We are using ebXML as a conceptual and notational framework for our approach. The theoretical foundations of our approach are based on the Language/Action approach and REA. We illustrate how our approach can be used to facilitate integration, process specification and process pattern interpretation.

[2002-sept, .DOC]

Erik Perjons has provided a text on why process orientation is useful for organisations and in electronic collaborations. It also outlines different classifications of process models, meta models and ontologies. [.DOC]

[2002-Feb-Prasad]

Research paper by Prasad Jayaweera

[2001-dec-sasha]

Student paper by Sasha