Mathias Weske Bücher

The book provides a comprehensive exploration of the business process lifecycle, encompassing modeling, enactment, and evaluation. It begins with foundational concepts in business process management before delving into process modeling languages and choreographies. The author discusses formal properties of processes and data, and concludes with an examination of various business process management architectures, including workflow management systems and service-oriented architectures, as well as innovative data-driven approaches.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Annual International Conference on Object-Oriented and Internet-Based Technologies, Concepts and Applications for a Networked World, Net. Object Days 2004, held in Erfurt, Germany, in September 2004. The 15 revised full papers presented togehter with an invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from inclusion in the book. The papers are organised in topical sections on languages and models, agents and the semantic Web, supporting software processes, software porducti lines, and case studies and visions