Business process models play an important role in today's enterprises, hence, model
repositories may contain hundreds of models. These models are, for example, reused during …

Business process management technology is becoming increasingly popular, resulting in
more and more business process models being created. Hence, there is a need for these …

The volume of process-related data is growing rapidly: more and more business operations
are being supported and monitored by information systems. Industry 4.0 and the …

In modern commerce, both frequent changes of custom demands and the specialization of
the business process require the capacity of modeling business processes for enterprises …

CONTEXT: Large organizations often run hundreds or even thousands of different business
processes. Managing such large collections of business process models is a challenging …

Finding useful services is a challenging and important task in several applications. Current
approaches for services retrieval are mostly limited to the matching of their inputs/outputs. In …

Dear Reader, The idea of this book is due to the last decade of observations and academic
discussions at scientific conferences in the areas of business process management [2, 14] …

We present a framework for querying and reusing graph-based business process models.
The framework is based on a new visual query language for business processes called …

Spam has become an important problem for computer security because it is a channel for
spreading threats, including computer viruses, worms and phishing. Currently, more than …

As organizations reach higher levels of business process management maturity, they often
find themselves maintaining very large process model repositories, representing valuable …