Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments

Wang, Minhong, Sun, Zhaohao

IGI Global, Jul 31, 2009 - Education - 692 pages

Business processes are becoming increasingly complex and dynamic as they seek to cope with a wide range of internal and external interactions and changes.

The Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments investigates the nature and history of dynamic processes essential to understanding the need for flexibility and adaptability as well as the requirements to improve solutions. This innovative collection covers the development of various strategies, architectures, and techniques for achieving adaptive processes in environments.

Contents

• Challenges and Solutionsfor Complex BusinessProcess Management: 1
• Enterprise Specific BPMLanguages and Tools: 23
• Organizational Change IT andBusiness Process Redesign: 57
• Evaluating Adequacyof Business ProcessModeling Approaches: 79
• Dynamic and ContextAwareProcess Adaptation: 104
• Flexibility for DistributedWorkflows: 137
• Bayesian Agent Adaptation inComplex Dynamic Systems: 172
• FlowBased AdaptiveInformation Integration: 209
• Adaptive ExceptionManagement in UncertainEnvironments: 232
• MultipleStep Backtrackingof Exception Handlingin Autonomous BusinessProcess Management: 251
• Adaptive Developmentand Management ofBusiness Collaborations: 272
• Towards DynamicCollaborations in VirtualOrganisation Alliances: 297
• InterWorkflow Patternsin Logistic Processes: 322
• Engineering of ExperienceBased Trust for ECommerce: 342
• Addressing the Complexities ofGlobal Process Harmonization: 368
• Tending and Trekkingtowards Composite OrientedArchitecture COA: 386
• Semantic Business ProcessMining of SAP Transactions: 416
• A Domain Specific Strategy forComplex Dynamic Processes: 430
• Lightweight Workflow: 456
• Testing Complex and DynamicBusiness Processes: 470
• Identifying Batch ProcessingFeatures in Workflows: 486
• Developing Efficient Processesand Process Managementin New Business Creationin the ICTSector: 510
• Operational ProcessManagement in the FinancialServices Industry: 529
• Knowledge Flow Networks andCommunities of Practice InBusiness Process Management: 551
• Designing ComplexOrganizations Computationally: 573
• Compilation of References: 599
• About the Contributors: 641
• Index: 654

About the author

Minhong Wang is an assistant professor of information and technology studies at the Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong. She received her PhD in information systems from City University of Hong Kong in 2005. Her current research interests include business process management, workflow systems, knowledge management, information systems, and e-learning. She has published papers in Information & Management, Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge-based Systems, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Educational Technology and Society, International Journal of Intelligent Information Technologies, International Journal of Internet & Enterprise Management, International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction, and presented papers at international conferences, including CAiSE, BPM, HICSS, AMCIS, ICEIS, PRICAI, CEC/EEE, ICELW among others. She is Editor-in-Chief of Knowledge Management & E-Learning: an International Journal (KM&EL), and The Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments. She is the guest editor of International Journal of Internet & Enterprise Management. She also serves on the editorial board for a number of international journals.

Zhaohao Sun received a PhD in information technology from Bond University, Australia. Currently, he is a senior lecturer in information systems at Graduate School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat, Australia, after working as a full professor of computer science and technology and the Head of the School of Computer Science and Technology at Hebei Normal University, China for two years (2007-2009). He previously held academic positions at Hebei University, China; RWTH Aachen, TU Cottbus, Germany; Bond University and the University of Wollongong, Australia. He has two books and more than 80 research publications of national and/or international journals, book chapters and conference proceedings. His monograph (co-authored with Prof Gavin Finnie) : Intelligent Techniques in E-Commerce was published by Springer Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, Germany in 2004. He has lectured more than 20 different subjects for computing undergraduate and postgraduate students in China and Australia. His current research interests include algorithm analysis and design, e-commerce and e-business, intelligent techniques in e-commerce and e-services, case-based/experience-based reasoning, multiagent systems, web intelligence and web engineering, intelligent computing, knowledge/experience management. He is a member of the AIS and the IEEE. [Editor]

Bibliographic information

• Title: Handbook of Research on Complex Dynamic Process Management: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments: Techniques for Adaptability in Turbulent Environments; Business science reference; IGI Global research collection
• Editors: Wang, Minhong, Sun, Zhaohao
• Publisher: IGI Global, 2009
• ISBN: 160566670X, 9781605666709
• Length: 692 pages
• Subjects: Computers / General; Education / Computers & Technology; Education / Testing & Measurement