Over the last decade there has been a shift from “data-aware” information systems to
“process-aware” information systems. To support business processes an enterprise …

Business Process Management (BPM) research resulted in a plethora of methods,
techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management, and analysis of …

Petri Nets–An Introduction [63] is a slim book that was published almost 30 years ago and
was quickly translated into six languages and sold several thousand copies. For a long time …

Process mining Page 1 76 CoMMuniCAtionS oF thE ACM | AuguST 2012 | vOL. 55 | NO. 8
contributed articles Doi:10.1145/2240236.2240257 Using real event data to X-ray business …

Contemporary workflow management systems are driven by explicit process models, ie, a
completely specified workflow design is required in order to enact a given workflow process …

Workflow management promises a new solution to an age-old problem: controlling,
monitoring, optimizing and supporting business processes. What is new about workflow …

Differences in features supported by the various contemporary commercial workflow
management systems point to different insights of suitability and different levels of …

Many companies have adopted Process-aware Information Systems (PAIS) to support their
business processes in some form. On the one hand these systems typically log events (eg …

Carl Adam Petri is a contemporary German mathematician. In the early sixties, he defined a
general purpose mathematical model for describing relations existing between conditions …

Based on a rigorous analysis of existing workflow management systems and workflow
languages, a new workflow language is proposed: yet another workflow language (YAWL) …