The problem of combining many rank orderings of the same set of candidates, also known as the rank aggregation problem, has been intensively investigated in the context of Web (e.g meta-search) databases (e.g combining results from multiple databases), statistics (e.g. correlations), and last but not least sports and ...

Service management organizations and processes increasingly become standardized and even certified according to ISO/IEC 20000-1, creating detailed knowledge of the IT services rendered. The description of the services in a service catalogue needs to be enhanced beyond the components of IT services to include all contributing ...

Offering business services is widely considered a means for superior value creation. Increasing research activities in the emerging disciplines of Service Sciences and Service Science Management and Engineering (SSME) can be ascertained. Even so, the integration of service processes and their virtualization with suitable ...

While agility is a core challenge in todays competitive business, softwarebased business process modeling and execution approaches often refer to strict and inflexible formalization. Complementary, we propose an extension of the business process model by integrating information from the Internet of Things to increase ...

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are spreading in many organizations and aim at enhancing efficiency, agility, and productivity of business processes. Standardization and modularity enable the networking of applicationbased business functionalities especially in inter-organizational settings. This research analyzes ...

In today's distributed and dynamic business environment companies and their business processes are frequently subject to changes, requiring the ability to continuously evolve business processes in a flexible and dynamic way according to changing external conditions. Taking flexibility as the ability to react to changes ...

Business process modeling plays a major role in industry and academia. As a result, current research focuses on its assistance. Business process modeling is a time-consuming task and its effort is hard to predict, and a plethora of concepts exists for facilitating and improving it. A concept that has not been studied yet ...

Modeling business processes is an essential task when aligning, improving or automating existing business processes. To be efficient in such tasks, a business process model must be understandable, reusable and easily maintainable. For assessing the quality of a business process model, a set of quality metrics have been ...

This paper proposes a framework for the detection of information leaks in workflow descriptions based on static information flow analysis. Despite the correct deployment of access control mechanisms, certain information leaks can persist, thereby undermining the compliance of workflows to policies. The framework put ...