In the last few years, service-oriented computing has become an emerging research topic in response...

The increasing popularity and influence of service-oriented computing give rise to the need of representational...

Assessing and achieving alignment between an organization’s strategies and its IT/business functions has long been...

IT has a role to play in the current debate on climate change. The current...

In the study of business management, process integration has become an interesting area of research...

Business process compliance management is a field of study involving the co-ordination of business process...

There is a complex range of interrelated environmental issues that currently challenge decision-makers across the...

Agent–oriented conceptual modeling notations such as i* represents an interesting approach for modeling early phase...

Business processes represent the operational capabilities of an organization. In order to ensure process continuity,...

Process inter-operation is characterized as cooperative interactions among loosely coupled autonomous constituents to adaptively fulfill...

We introduce the notion of an actor eco-system a framework that addresses the design-time requirements...

Compliance issues impose significant management and reporting requirements upon organizations.We present an approach to enhance...

The premise behind ‘third wave’ Business Process Management (BPM1) is effective support for change at...

Modeling is an important and time consuming part of the Business Process Management life-cycle. An...

Business Process Management (BPM) has many anticipated benefits including accelerated process improvement, at the operational...

Process inter-operation is characterized as cooperative interactions among loosely coupled autonomous constituents to adaptively fulfill...

Web Service composition is the ability of one business to provide value-added services to its...

Agent-Oriented conceptual modelling notations are highly effective in representing requirements from an intentional stance and...

Unlike a traditional software module, which runs within a predictable domain, Web Services are autonomous...

A key impediment to the widespread adoption of web services is the relatively limited set...

Agent--oriented conceptual modeling notations such as i* represents an interesting approach for modeling early phase...

Agent-Oriented Conceptual Modelling (AOCM), as exemplified by the i* notation [9], represents an interesting approach...

Handling inconsistent requirements specifications remains a difficult challenge for the requirements engineering community. This paper...

Service composition aims to provide the efficient and accurate model of a service, based on...

A key impediment to the widespread adoption of web services is the is the relatively...

Business processes evolve throughout their lifecycle of change. Business Process Modeling (BPM2) notations such as...

Business processes evolve throughout their lifecycle of change. Business Process Modeling (BPM2) notations such as...

Business Process Management (BPM) provides the methods, tools and modelling notations to support a processcentric...

Algorithms for Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems have tended to mirror existing non-distributed global-search or local-search...

Agent-oriented conceptual modelling (AoCM) notations such as i* have received considerable recent attention as a...

Software development processes requires a thorough understanding of stakeholder objectives and requirements. Product-centrism is an...

Most existing formalizations treat belief change as a single step process, and ignore several problems...

Agent-oriented Conceptual Modelling (AoCM, as exemplified by the i* notation by E. Yu (1995)), represents...

Agent-oriented conceptual modelling notations such as i* have received considerable recent attention as a useful...

Hypertree decomposition is a powerful technique for transforming near-acyclic CSPs into acyclic CSPs. Acyclic CSPs...

Inconsistency handling is an aspect of requirements engineering that has attracted considerable research attention. We...

Dealing with inconsistencies and change in requirements engineering (RE) is known to be a difficult...

There is a complex range of interrelated environmental issues that currently challenge decision-makers across the...