Business process improvement in Abnoba
ICSOC'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Service-oriented computing
An architecture and methodology for a four-phased approach to green business process reengineering
ICT-GLOW'11 Proceedings of the First international conference on Information and communication on technology for the fight against global warming
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There is a global consensus on the need to reduce our collective carbon footprint. While much research attention has focused on developing alternative energy sources, automotive technologies or waste disposal techniques, we often ignore the fact that the ability to optimize (existing) operations to reduce their emissions impact is fundamental to this exercise. We believe that by transforming the problem into the domain of Business Process Management (BPM) we can leverage the rich expertise in this field to address issues associated with identifying areas for improvement, understanding the implication and performing carbon footprint minimization. We will use the term ``Green BPM'' to describe a novel class of technologies that leverage and extend existing BPM technology to enable process design, analysis, execution and monitoring in a manner informed by the carbon footprint of process designs and instances. This article describes the first steps in the development of this class of technologies.