This book collects essential research on the practical application of executable business process modeling in real-world projects, i.e., model-driven solutions for the support and automation of digital business processes that are created using languages such as BPEL or BPMN. It mainly focuses on empirical research, but also includes an up-to-date cross-section of case studies in order to assess examples of BPM’s practical impact in the industry. On the one hand, executable models are formally and precisely defined so that computers can interpret and execute them; on the other, they are visualized so that humans can describe, document and optimize business processes at a higher level of abstraction than with traditional textual programming languages. While these important research areas have long been separated from one another, this book is an attempt at cross-fertilization, driven by the insight that business processes are the software behind today’s digital organizations, and that achieving a precise representation of such processes is key to their reliable execution. Consequently, the book presents various case studies and experiments that investigate questions of interest to both academia (e.g., identifying challenges for which no solution exists; sharing new insights into how existing approaches are actually used) and industry (e.g., guidelines on using certain technologies and on modeling comprehensible and executable processes). Both researchers and practitioners will benefit from the presentation of how concepts are transformed into working solutions. The studies are presented in a structured manner and with sufficient rigor to be considered empirical research, further enhancing the book’s value for the research community, while practitioners will find concrete guidance on making the right decisions for their projects.

This book contains the proceedings of two long-running events held along with the CAiSE conference relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling: * the 21st International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2020, and * the 25th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2020. The conferences were planned to take place in Grenoble, France, during June 8–9, 2020. They were held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For BPMDS 13 full papers and 1 short paper were carefully reviewed and selected for publication from a total of 30 submissions; for EMMSAD 11 full papers and 4 short papers were accepted from 29 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections named as follows: BPMDS: Business process execution and monitoring, BPM applications in industry and practice, planning and scheduling in business processes, process mining, process models and visualizations EMMSAD: Requirements and method engineering, enterprise and business modeling, software-related modeling, domain-specific modeling, evaluation-related research.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th Software Quality Days Conference, SWQD 2020, held in Vienna, Austria, in January 2020. The Software Quality Days (SWQD) conference started in 2009 and has grown to the biggest conference on software quality in Europe with a strong community. The program of the SWQD conference is designed to encompass a stimulating mixture of practical presentations and new research topics in scientific presentations. The guiding conference topic of the SWQD 2020 is “Quality Intelligence in Software and Systems Engineering”. The 5 full papers and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. The volume also contains 2 invited talks. The contributions were organized in topical sections named: industry challenges and collaborations; software testing approaches; social aspects in software engineering; natural language processing; and software quality assurance concepts.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of two long-running events held along with the CAiSE conference relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling: * the 24th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2023, and * the 28th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2023. The conferences were taking place in Zaragoza, Spain, during June 12-13, 2023. For BPMDS 9 full papers and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected for publication from a total of 26 submissions; for EMMSAD 9 full papers and 3 short papers were accepted from 26 submissions after thorough reviews. The BPMDS papers deal with a broad range of theoretical and applications-based research in business process modeling, development and support. EMMSAD focusses on modeling methods for systems analysis and development.

Business processes are among today's hottest topics in the science and practice of information systems. Business processes and workflow management systems attract a lot of attention from R&D professionals in software engineering, information systems, business-oriented computer science, and management sciences. The carefully reviewed chapters contributed to this state-of-the-art survey by internationally leading scientists consolidate work presented at various workshops on the topic organized by the editors of the book in the past few years. The book spans the whole spectrum of business process management ranging from theoretical aspects, conceptual models, and application scenarios to implementation issues. It will become a valuable source of reference and information for R&D professionals active in the fascinating interdisciplinary area of business process management and for ambitious practitioners.

This volume constitutes the revised selected papers from 4 workshops: Workshop on Adaptive Service-oriented and Cloud Applications (ASOCA 2022), 3rd International Workshop on AI-enabled Process Automation (AI-PA 2022), 3rd International Workshop on Architectures for Future Mobile Computing and Internet of Things (FMCIoT 2022), and 18th International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications and Cloud Services (WESOACS 2022) held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2022. The conference was held in Sevilla, Spain, in November/December 2022.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the tracks and workshops which complemented the 16th European Conference on Software Architecture, ECSA 2022, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2022. The 26 full papers presented together with 4 short papers and 2 tutorial papers in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. Papers presented were accepted into the following tracks and workshops: Industry track; Tools and Demonstrations Track; Doctoral Symposium; Tutorials; 8th International Workshop on Automotive System/Software Architectures (WASA); 5th Context-Aware, Autonomous and Smart Architectures International Workshop (CASA); 6th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems (FAACS); 3rd Workshop on Systems, Architectures, and Solutions for Industry 4.0 (SASI4); 2nd International Workshop on Designing and Measuring Security in Software Architectures (DeMeSSA); 2nd International Workshop on Software Architecture and Machine Learning (SAML); 9th Workshop on Software Architecture Erosion and Architectural Consistency (SAEroCon); 2nd International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories for Software Architecture (MSR4SA); and 1st International Workshop on Digital Twin Architecture (TwinArch).