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Business Process Management: A Survey

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Business Process Management (BPM 2003)

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Business Process Management (BPM) includes methods, techniques, and tools to support the design, enactment, management, and analysis of operational business processes. It can be considered as an extension of classical Workflow Management (WFM) systems and approaches. Although the practical relevance of BPM is undisputed, a clear definition of BPM and related acronyms such as BAM, BPA, and STP are missing. Moreover, a clear scientific foundation is missing. In this paper, we try to demystify the acronyms in this domain, describe the state-of-the-art technology, and argue that BPM could benefit from formal methods/languages (cf. Petri nets, process algebras, etc.).

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  1. Department of Technology Management, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  2. Centre for Information Technology Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede

  3. Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

    Mathias Weske

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  1. Department of Information and Technology, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Wil M. P. van der Aalst

  2. Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, Potsdam University, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3, 14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Mathias Weske

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van der Aalst, W.M.P., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Weske, M. (2003). Business Process Management: A Survey. In: van der Aalst, W.M.P., Weske, M. (eds) Business Process Management. BPM 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2678. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44895-0_1

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