This book introduces students to business process management, an approach that aims to align the organization’s business processes with the demands of the marketplace. Processes serve as a coordination mechanism, and the aim of business process management is to improve the organization’s effectiveness and efficiency in adapting to change, and maintaining competitive advantage.In Business Process Management, Kumar argues for the value of looking at businesses as a collectio...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2017.The 19 revised full papers papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 initial submissions. The topics selected by the authors demonstrate an increasing interest of the research community in the area of process mining, resonated by an equally fast-growing uptake by different industry sectors. The papers a...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum from the International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, September 2017.The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference.The volume contains 11 ...

Behind Closed CurtainsSome doors are locked. Some secrets are hidden. And some people are watching.Julian Vance built The Obsidian, the world's most advanced luxury smart tower—a fortress of glass, steel, and artificial intelligence designed to keep its residents safe. From his isolated penthouse command center, Julian monitors every system, every sensor, and every digital footprint inside the building.Control is everything....

Daniel Frost wakes up to a life that doesn't belong to him.Haunted by impossible memories, mysterious messages, and a daughter he cannot remember, Daniel begins to uncover a truth that challenges everything he knows about identity and reality.As fragments of forgotten timelines collide, he is drawn into a dangerous mystery that spans parallel worlds and hidden experiments. With time running out, Daniel must decide which version of his life is truly his—and what he is willin...

This book constitutes revised papers from the eleven International Workshops held at the 15th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, in Barcelona, Spain, in September 2017:BPAI 2017 – 1st International Workshop on Business Process Innovation with Artificial Intelligence; BPI 2017 – 13th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence; BP-Meet-IoT 2017 – 1st International Workshop on Ubiquitous Business Processes Meeting Internet-of-Things; BPMS2 ...

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2016, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016. The BIS conference series follows trends in academia and business research; thus the theme of the BIS 2016 conference was Smart Business Ecosystems". This recognizes that no business is an island and competition is increasingly taking place between business networks and no longer between individual companies. A variety of aspect...

This book constitutes the proceedings of two events held in conjunction with the CAiSE conferences and related to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling: the 18th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2017, and the 22nd International Conference on Evaluation and Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD, 2017. They took place in Essen, Germany, in June 2017.The focus theme for BPM...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 5th Enterprise Engineering Working Conference, EEWC 2015, held in Prague, Czech Republic, during May 15–19, 2015. EEWC aims at addressing the challenges that modern and complex enterprises face in a rapidly changing world. The participants of the working conference share a belief that dealing with these challenges requires rigorous and scientific solutions, focusing on the design and engineering of enterprises. The goal of EEWC is to stimulate i...

This book constitutes revised papers from the six workshops held at the 19th International Conference on Business Information Systems, BIS 2016, held in Leipzig, Germany, in July 2016.The workshops included in this volume are:* The 8th Workshop on Applications of Knowledge-Based Technologies in Business - AKTB2016 accepted 7 papers from 14 submissions and features 1 invited talk.* The 7th Workshop on Business and IT Alignment - BITA 2016 selected 6 papers from 12 subm...

This book constitutes the tutorial lectures of the 4th European Business Intelligence Summer School, eBISS 2014, held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2014.The tutorials presented here in an extended and refined format were given by renowned experts and cover topics including requirements engineering for decision-support systems, visual analytics of large data sets, linked data and semantic technologies, supervised classification on data streams, and knowledge reuse in large organizatio...

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management, AITM 2016, and the 11th Conference on Information Systems Management, ISM 2016, held as part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, FedCSIS, which took place in Gdansk, Poland, in September 2016.The 13 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They were organized in topical sectio...