The action workflow approach to workflow management technology
CSCW '92 Proceedings of the 1992 ACM conference on Computer-supported cooperative work
An overview of workflow management: from process modeling to workflow automation infrastructure
Distributed and Parallel Databases - Special issue on software support for work flow management
Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning It with Business Goals
Business Rules and Information Systems: Aligning It with Business Goals
Enterprise application integration and complex adaptive systems
Communications of the ACM
Enterprise Modeling and Decision-Support for Automating the Business Rules Lifecycle
Automated Software Engineering
Process Automation as the Foundation for E-Business
VLDB '00 Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
AGENT WORK: a workflow system supporting rule-based workflow adaptation
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Editorial: web services and process management: a union of convenience or a new area of research?
Decision Support Systems - Special issue: Web services and process management
Event-condition-action rules on RDF metadata in P2P environments
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Web dynamics
Engineering a BPEL orchestration engine as a multi-agent system
Science of Computer Programming
Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains
Journal of Management Information Systems
Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect
Executing SOA: A Practical Guide for the Service-Oriented Architect
Introduction to web services architecture
IBM Systems Journal
A Semantical Framework for the Orchestration and Choreography of Web Services
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Business process management: a survey
BPM'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Business process management
Traceability and change in legal requirements engineering
AICOL-I/IVR-XXIV'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on AI approaches to the complexity of legal systems: complex systems, the semantic web, ontologies, argumentation, and dialogue
Measuring process flexibility and agility
Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance
Generic Problem Solving Tasks and Agent Roles in Public Administration
Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems: JURIX 2010: The Twenty-Third Annual Conference
Knowledge acquisition from sources of law in public administration
EKAW'10 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Knowledge engineering and management by the masses
Architectures for Enabling Flexible Business Processes: A Research Agenda
International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence
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Governments are looking for ways to change their business processes rapidly to adapt to the ever-changing legislation, customer needs, and other changes in the environment. In recent years, the need for more flexibility has become eminent due to the long implementation times of new legislations. As such, governments are searching for ways to create flexible business processes to adapt to changes. Yet there is little insight into how their business processes can be made more flexible. In this paper various ways of creating flexible business processes are reviewed. The quest for creating flexible processes is described by identifying various forms of the implementation of applications to execute business processes (workflows). We found that the implementations based on both knowledge rules (separating knowledge from processes) and event-condition-actions (ECA) mechanisms to determine the next step in a workflow, and resources (to deal with availability, utilization and ensure lead time) are expected to provide the highest level of flexibility to adapt to changes in the environment. Based on these findings, an ECA process orchestration architecture is developed and recommendations for further research are presented.