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BPMDS'08
Business Process Life-Cycle: Design, Deployment, Operation & Evaluation

Proceedings of the 9th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support held in conjunction with the CAiSE'08 Conference

Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008

Editors

Selmin Nurcan¹, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, France
Rainer Schmidt¹, University of Applied Sciences, Aalen, Germany
Pnina Soffer¹, University of Haifa, Israel
Ela Hunt², Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland
Xavier Franch², Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Remi Coletta², LIRMM CNRS-University of Montpellier 2, France

Table of Contents

Preface
1. A Lifecycle Model for Using Process Fragment in Business Process Modeling
   Zhilei Ma, Frank Leymann, pp. 1-9
2. Towards a Classification and Lifecycle of Business Process Change
   Karsten Ploesser, Jan Recker, Michael Rosemann, pp. 10-18
3. Requirements for the Service Process Lifecycle
   Rainer Schmidt, pp. 19-28
4. On Modelled Flexibility and Service Selection Optimisation
   Roland Ukor, Andy Carpenter, pp. 29-38
5. Towards Management of SLA-Aware Business Processes Based on Key Performance Indicators
   Branimir Wetzstein, Dimka Karastoyanova, Frank Leymann, pp. 39-48
6. How to better align BPM & SOA – Ideas on improving the transition between process design and deployment
   Sebastian Adam, Joerg Doerr, pp. 49-55
7. Business Process Evolution: a Rule-based Approach
   Mario Lezoche, Michele Missikoff, Leonardo Tininini, pp. 56-65
8. Enabling Off-Line Business Process Analysis: A Transformation-Based Approach
   Arnon Sturm, pp. 66-75
9. A Goal-based approach for business process learning
   Johny Ghattas, Pnina Soffer, Mor Peleg, pp. 76-85
10. Context-aware Business Process Evaluation and redesign
    Kahina Bessai, Bruno Claudepierre, Oumaima Saidani, Selmin Nurcan, pp. 86-95
11. Flexible Workflows: Reputation-based Message Routing
    Ben Jennings, Anthony Finkelstein, pp. 96-105
12. How to simplify the evolution of business process lifecycles
    Alexander Samarin, pp. 106-114
13. Why Business Process Improvement might not Bring Customer Satisfaction
    Gil Regev, Alain Wegmann, pp. 115-120
14. Best practices oriented business process operation and design
    Julija Stecjuka, Janis Makna, Marite Kirikova, pp. 121-129
15. Smart business networks: architectural aspects and risks
    L-F Pau, pp. 130-137