It is generally agreed that large process models should be decomposed into sub-processes
in order to enhance understandability and maintainability. Accordingly, a number of process …

Designing business process models plays a vital role in business process management.
The acquisition of such models may consume up to 60% of the project time. This time can be …

Business processes usually do not exist as singular entities that can be managed in
isolation, but rather as families of business process variants. When modelling such families …

Process Mining techniques have been gaining attention, especially as concerns the
discovery of predictive process models. Traditionally focused on workflows, they usually …

Empirical evidence shows that repositories of business process models used in industrial
practice contain significant amounts of duplication. This duplication arises for example when …

Many peer-organizations are now using process-aware information systems for managing
their organizational processes. Most of these peer-organizations have shared processes …

Various modeling approaches have been introduced to manage process diversity in a
business context. For practitioners, it is difficult to select an approach suitable for the needs …

This chapter presents hierarchical variability as an important development notion especially
when considered together with a systems specification through decomposition. A matured …

Modeling is an integral part of business process management. However, it is often a
repetitive work and therefore, methods of its improvement are being invented. In this paper …

Globalization and digital transformation increasingly drives agility requirements of business
processes, hand-in-hand with execution support by highly flexible, interactive and …