Papers from a June 2002 workshop identify and explore technical and technology management issues surrounding e-commerce for the Internet. Papers are grouped in sections on WebServices and XML-based protocols, business processes and workflow technology, e-markets, Internet infrastructure, wireless infrastructure and the Web, and e- commerce applications. Some applications and methods discussed include pricing of bundled information goods, a secure protocol for disseminating data to subscribers via IP multicast, clustering Web accelerators, and dynamic refinement of table summarization for m- commerce. Other topics are mediator systems in e-commerce applications, MQML-message queuing markup language, and characterization of e-commerce traffic. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Papers from a June 2002 workshop identify and explore technical and technology management issues surrounding e-commerce for the Internet. Papers are grouped in sections on WebServices and XML-based protocols, business processes and workflow technology, e-markets, Internet infrastructure, wireless infrastructure and the Web, and e- commerce applications. Some applications and methods discussed include pricing of bundled information goods, a secure protocol for disseminating data to subscribers via IP multicast, clustering Web accelerators, and dynamic refinement of table summarization for m- commerce. Other topics are mediator systems in e-commerce applications, MQML-message queuing markup language, and characterization of e-commerce traffic. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Workflow-based Web applications present a central pillar of companies' endeavors towards increased business process efficiency and flexibility. Considering their particular characteristics, this book presents innovative approaches for their efficient, completely model-driven construction with particular emphasis on effective stakeholder involvement, usability-oriented dialog design and cross-methodological reuse.

The 30 papers cover business-to-business electronic commerce and negotiations; infrastructure issues; electronic services, advertising, and markets; XML-related issues; architecture, protocols, and analysis; and applications. Among the topics are constructing online catalog topologies using decision trees, two approaches for constructing pay-per-use software, a distributed and scalable architecture for processing XML documents, advanced dynamic property evaluation for CORBA-based electronic markets, supporting global replicated services by a routing-metric-aware DNS, and a bid evaluation system for Internet contract negotiation. The keynote address is not included. There is no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book starts with an introduction to process modeling and process paradigms, then explains how to query and analyze process models, and how to analyze the process execution data. In this way, readers receive a comprehensive overview of what is needed to identify, understand and improve business processes. The book chiefly focuses on concepts, techniques and methods. It covers a large body of knowledge on process analytics – including process data querying, analysis, matching and correlating process data and models – to help practitioners and researchers understand the underlying concepts, problems, methods, tools and techniques involved in modern process analytics. Following an introduction to basic business process and process analytics concepts, it describes the state of the art in this area before examining different analytics techniques in detail. In this regard, the book covers analytics over different levels of process abstractions, from process execution data and methods for linking and correlating process execution data, to inferring process models, querying process execution data and process models, and scalable process data analytics methods. In addition, it provides a review of commercial process analytics tools and their practical applications. The book is intended for a broad readership interested in business process management and process analytics. It provides researchers with an introduction to these fields by comprehensively classifying the current state of research, by describing in-depth techniques and methods, and by highlighting future research directions. Lecturers will find a wealth of material to choose from for a variety of courses, ranging from undergraduate courses in business process management to graduate courses in business process analytics. Lastly, it offers professionals a reference guide to the state of the art in commercial tools and techniques, complemented by many real-world use case scenarios.