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
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Aris-Business Process Modeling
Enterprise Modeling and Decision-Support for Automating the Business Rules Lifecycle
Automated Software Engineering
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
Impact of service orientation at the business level
IBM Systems Journal
Event-condition-action rules on RDF metadata in P2P environments
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking - Web dynamics
Guest editorial: Business process management: Where business processes and web services meet
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Coordinating for Flexibility in e-Business Supply Chains
Journal of Management Information Systems
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Controversy Corner: On the similarity between requirements and architecture
Journal of Systems and Software
Graph Matching Algorithms for Business Process Model Similarity Search
BPM '09 Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Business Process Management
Introduction to web services architecture
IBM Systems Journal
Enabling flexible processes by ECA orchestration architecture
Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance
A Semantical Framework for the Orchestration and Choreography of Web Services
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
Web services and flexible business processes: towards the adaptive enterprise
Information and Management
Motives for establishing shared service centers in public administrations
International Journal of Information Management: The Journal for Information Professionals
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For decades, information systems have been designed for controlling and managing business processes. In the past, these systems were often monolithic in nature and not made for interacting and communicating with other systems. Today, departments and organizations must collaborate, which requires distributed Web-based systems to support the enactment of flexible business processes. In this paper, four architectures of process management systems are investigated by studying the components and the relationships with the tasks that make up the business processes. These different architectures support automation of non-repetitive, customized processes, and are compared based on dimensions of flexibility. This evaluation showed that the process orchestration architecture scored best, but still has its shortcomings. The results from the comparison are used for developing a research agenda that includes the suggestion to develop reference architecture for connecting individual architectural components.