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How to implement a theory of correctness in the area of business processes and services
- LNCS 6336
, 2010
"... During the previous years, we presented several results concerned with various issues related to the correctness of models for business processes and services (i. e., interorganizational business processes). For most of the results, we presented tools and experimental evidence for the computational ..."
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During the previous years, we presented several results concerned with various issues related to the correctness of models for business processes and services (i. e., interorganizational business processes). For most of the results, we presented tools and experimental evidence for the computational
An Overview of Workflow Management: From Process Modeling to Workflow Automation Infrastructure
- DISTRIBUTED AND PARALLEL DATABASES
, 1995
"... Today’s business enterprises must deal with global competition, reduce the cost of doing business, and rapidly develop new services and products. To address these requirements enterprises must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business and change their information systems and appl ..."
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Today’s business enterprises must deal with global competition, reduce the cost of doing business, and rapidly develop new services and products. To address these requirements enterprises must constantly reconsider and optimize the way they do business and change their information systems
Materials for an exploratory theory of the network society.
- The British Journal of Sociology
, 2000
"... ABSTRACT This article aims at proposing some elements for a grounded theor y of the network society. The network society is the social structure characteristic of the Information Age, as tentatively identi ed by empirical, cross-cultural investigation. It permeates most societies in the world, in v ..."
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and customers through one rm, with this rm being essentially an intermediary of supply and demand, collecting a fee for its ability to process information. The unit of this production process is not the rm, but the business project. The rm continues to be the legal unit of capital accumulation. But since
Whom You Know Matters: Venture Capital Networks and Investment Performance,
- Journal of Finance
, 2007
"... Abstract Many financial markets are characterized by strong relationships and networks, rather than arm's-length, spot-market transactions. We examine the performance consequences of this organizational choice in the context of relationships established when VCs syndicate portfolio company inv ..."
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for portfolio companies, and may indirectly provide access to other VCs' relationships with service providers such as head hunters and prestigious investment banks. An examination of the performance consequences of VC networks requires measures of how well networked a VC is. We borrow these measures from
C.: A semi-automated orchestration tool for service-based business processes
- In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications: Design and Composition. (2006
"... Abstract. When creating service compositions from a very large number of atomic service operations, it is inherently difficult for the modeler to discover suitable operations for his particular goal. Automated service composition claims to solve this problem, but only works if complete and correct o ..."
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that this mixed initiative approach significantly eases the creation of composed services. We validated our implementation with the leading vendor of business applications, using their processes and service repository, which spans across multiple functional areas of enterprise computing. 1
Self-concordance at work: Toward understanding the motivational effects of transformational leaders.
- Academy of Management Journal,
, 2003
"... We extend existing theories by linking transformational leadership to "self-concordance" at work. In two studies using diverse samples and methods, leader behaviors were associated with follower tendencies to set self-concordant goals. In general, followers of transformational leaders vie ..."
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workings of transformational leadership " (1999: 24). Noting that current rational and economic theories of motivation cannot explain the transformational leadership process, Shamir, House, and Arthur (1993) offered a self-concept-based theory. Although their theory is one of the best articulated
Bakdi et al. A Business Process Oriented Approach to Secure Web Services A Business Process Oriented Approach to Secure Web Services
"... Recently, interest in Web Services has grown throughout the IT community. Especially when it comes to application integration, the employment of Web Services seems to be a promising approach. But despite the advantages of this technology, its deployment, particularly in the inter-organizational doma ..."
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propose a solution consisting of an authorization engine, which makes its decisions about the admissibility of a given call taking the relations between successive requests into account. Further, we sketch an implementation and explain how a modeling formalism such as the Business Process Execution
Technical Report Service-Oriented Development of Virtual Business Services ∗
"... Economic theory defines services as customisable, interactive processes that providers have the potential to carry out together with clients that benefit from their effects. It is understood that service transactions are best organised by means of virtual collaborative networks, where ICT allows con ..."
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that business service virtualisation can be achieved by means of software service technology and existing SOA models represent virtual business service processes as e-services [ZEar]. In this paper, we present a service-oriented development lifecycle model for planning and controlling virtualised business
Specifying and Verifying Cross-Organizational Business Models: An Agent-Oriented Approach ∗
"... Cross-organizational business processes are the norm in today’s economy. Enterprises of necessity conduct their business in cooperation to create products and services for the marketplace. Such business processes inherently involve autonomous partners with heterogeneous software designs and implemen ..."
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and implementations. Thus it would be natural to model such processes via high-level abstractions that reflect the contractual relationships among the business partners. Yet, in today’s IT practice, cross-organizational processes are modeled at a low level of abstraction in terms of the control and data flows among
A framework for managing the evolution of business protocols in web services
- In APCCM ’07: Proceedings of the fourth Asia-Pacific conference on Conceptual modelling. Australian Computer Society, Inc
, 2007
"... Web services are loosely coupled software components that are published, discovered, and invoked across the Web. As the use of Web services grows, in order to correctly interact with the growing services, it is important to understand the business protocols that provide clients with the information ..."
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Web services are loosely coupled software components that are published, discovered, and invoked across the Web. As the use of Web services grows, in order to correctly interact with the growing services, it is important to understand the business protocols that provide clients with the information
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