Publications related to Business Process Execution Language

Autologous and Allogeneic Cytotherapies for Large Knee (Osteo)Chondral Defects: Manufacturing Process Benchmarking and Parallel Functional Qualification

Sandra Jaccoud, Corinne Scaletta, Philippe Abdel Sayed, Nathalie Hirt-Burri, Robin Martin, Salim Elias Darwiche, Cédric Peneveyre, Annick Jeannerat, Alexis Laurent

Cytotherapies are often necessary for the management of symptomatic large knee (osteo)-chondral defects. While autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) has been clinically used for 30 years, allogeneic cells (clinical-grade FE002 primary chondroprogenitor ...

MDPI2023

Extending Business Process Models with Appreciation

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Irina Rychkova

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’ Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exam ...

2019

A Novel Approach to Modeling Enterprise Services Leveraging Object Cloning and Multilevel Classification

Alain Wegmann, Lam Son Lê

Object-oriented modeling is concerned with capturing common properties of objects. The dominant thinking in this realm is to classify objects that share certain properties into what is called a class, which in turn enables us to instantiate additional obje ...

IEEE2019

Awareness Towards Industry 4.0: Key Enablers and Applications for Internet of Things and Big Data

Christopher Tucci, Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

The fourth Industrial revolution promises to increase productivity, flexibility and automation of internal business processes integrating value chains and supporting companies to design and offer novel services based on the availability of data enabled by ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

From Goal-Achievement to the Maintenance of Relationships: Extending Business Process Models with Homeostasis and Appreciation

Gil Regev, Irina Rychkova

We use homeostasis, the maintenance of steady states in an organism, to explain some of the decisions made by participants in a business process. We use Vickers’s Appreciative System to model the homeostatic states with Harel’s statecharts. We take the exa ...

CEUR Workshop Proceedings2018

What Have We Unlearned Since the Early Days of the Process Movement?

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

The vision brought forth by Michael Hammer in the late 1980s was to save struggling American companies by getting them to focus on the creation of value for clients by reorganizing their operations and structure around the use of IT systems. This was the B ...

Springer2016

Nanostandardization in Action: Implementing Standardization Processes in a Multidisciplinary Nanoparticle-Based Research and Development Project

Heinrich Hofmann

Nanomaterials have attracted much interest in the medical field and related applications as their distinct properties in the nanorange enable new and improved diagnosis and therapies. Owing to these properties and their potential interactions with the huma ...

Springer2016

Challenges Laying Ahead for Future Digital Enterprises: A Research Perspective

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi

Nowadays, digital enterprises are confronted with disruptive technological advancements in their constant quest for innovation and creativity. In order to evolve towards new forms of enterprises, driven by constant business model transformation, a number o ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2015

Distributed Awareness for Class Orchestration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Frédéric Kaplan, Hamed Seiied Alavi

The orchestration process consists of managing classroom interactions at multiple levels: individual activities, teamwork and class-wide sessions. We study the process of orchestration in recitation sections, i.e. when students work on their assignments in ...

Springer2009

Business Process Flexibility through the Exploration of Stimuli

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, Kuldeep Kumar

For organizations to survive and flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Ashby’s law of requisite variety applied to business processes postulates that a robust process needs to exhibit as much variety in its respo ...

2008

Formal semantics for refinement verification of entreprise models

Irina Rychkova

In this dissertation we investigate how Business/IT alignment in enterprise models can be enhanced by using a software engineering stepwise refinement paradigm. To have an IT system that supports an enterprise and meets the enterprise business needs, manag ...

EPFL2008

Capturing Design Rationale with Functional Decomposition of Roles in Business Processes Modeling

Alain Wegmann, Pavel Balabko, Nicolas Clément

Enterprises need to create and maintain the fit between their business processes and their business process support (BPS) systems. This frequently requires re-engineering of business processes. If the business processes design ration-ales are made explicit ...

2005

Remaining Fit: On the Creation and Maintenance of Fit

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

This paper serves as the introductory note to the Fifth Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support (BPMDS’04). The workshop focuses on the exploration of issues related to the fit between business processes and Business Process Support ...

2004

Why Do We Need Business Process Support? Balancing Specialization and Generalization with BPS Systems

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

Businesses face a changing environment with an uncertain future. They need to specialize their business processes in order to become successful in the short term. This specialization, however, becomes a problem in the long term, when conditions change. A B ...

2003

Regulation Based Linking of Strategic Goals and Business Processes

Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann

To be able to make changes to a business process, it is necessary to understand how the process supports the strategic goals of the business and how changes to the goals may impact the process and vice versa. This paper explains the relations between strat ...

2002