Dynamic Business Process Formation fuses practical needs with theoretical input to present important research innovations in supporting Instant Virtual Enterprises (IVEs). This new organization type brings a combination of business dynamism and explicit business process structure to domains where on-the-fly formation of well-organized business networks is required to deal with the complexity of new products or services under high time pressure. This book contains the main results of the IST CrossWork project, and, importantly, looks beyond the boundaries of this project and sources input from related projects and general trends in collaborative enterprises and the automotive industry. Both the business and technical aspects of Virtual Enterprise coordination are covered within the modular structure of the book, which enables readers from different backgrounds to benefit from the book according to their interests.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2014) and the 19th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD 2014), held together with the 26th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2014) in Thessaloniki, Greece, in June 2014. The 20 full papers accepted for BPMDS were selected from 48 submissions and cover a wide spectrum of issues related to business process development, modeling, and support. They are grouped into topical sections on business process modeling as a human-driven process, representing the human perspective of business processes, supporting humans in business processes, variability-enabling process models, various models for various process perspectives, and BPMDS in practice. The ten full and three short papers accepted for EMMSAD were chosen from 27 submissions and focus on exploring, evaluating, and enhancing modeling methods and methodologies for the analysis and design of information systems, enterprises, and business processes. They are grouped into sections on conceptual modeling, requirements modeling, business process modeling, goal and language action modeling, enterprise and business modeling, and new approaches.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 13th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2015, held in Goa, India in November 2015. The conference hosted the following seven workshops: 11th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications, WESOA 2015; Second Workshop on Resource Management in Service-Oriented Computing, RMSOC 2015; Workshop on Intelligent Service Clouds, ISC 2015; Second Workshop on Intelligent Service Clouds; First International Workshop on Dependability Issues in Services Computing, DISCO 2015; Workshop on Engineering for Service-oriented Enterprises, WESE 2015; First International Workshop on Big Data Services and Computational Intelligence, BSCI 2015 (joined with ISC 2015); and Second International Workshop on Formal Modeling and Verification of Service-based systems, FOR-MOVES 2015. The 22 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions.

Mastering e-Business presents an innovative, new teaching framework to help students gain a thorough understanding of the principles of this vital aspect of business and management.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Subject-Oriented Business Process Management, S-BPM ONE 2010, held in Karlsruhe, Germany in October 2010. The 10 revised full papers presented together with one invited keynote paper and three panel statements were carefully reviewed and selected from initially 17 submissions. The papers present innovative cross-disciplinary ideas, concepts, methods, tools and results in foundational and applied research as well as studies on the realization of such innovations in the real world - all based on the promising new paradigm of subject-oriented business process management.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Confederated International International Workshop on Enterprise Integration, Interoperability and Networking (EI2N ), Fact Based Modeling ( FBM), Industry Case Studies Program ( ICSP ), International Workshop on Methods, Evaluation, Tools and Applications for the Creation and Consumption of Structured Data for the e-Society (Meta4eS), OnTheMove Academy (OTMA 2017), and ODBASE posters 2017, held as part of OTM 2017 in October 2017 in Rhodes, Greece. The 25 full papers presented together with 8 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. The workshops covers data systems and Web semantics, distributed objects, Web services, databases, information systems, enterprise work flow and collaboration, ubiquity, interoperability, mobility, grid and high-performance computing.

"This book aids managers in the transformation of organizations into world-class competitors through business process applications"--Provided by publisher.