Advances in Enterprise Engineering I [electronic resource] : 4th International Workshop CIAO! and 4th International Workshop EOMAS, held at CAiSE 2008, Montpellier, France, June 16-17, 2008. Proceedings / edited by Jan L. G. Dietz, Antonia Albani, Joseph Barjis.

Process Modeling -- On the Nature of Business Rules -- Process Flexibility: A Survey of Contemporary Approaches -- Subsuming the BPM Life Cycle in an Ontological Framework of Designing -- Information Gathering for Semantic Service Discovery and Composition in Business Process Modeling -- Collaboration and Interoperability -- Challenges in Collaborative Modeling: A Literature Review -- A Petri-Net Based Formalisation of Interaction Protocols Applied to Business Process Integration -- Enterprise Architecture -- Competencies and Responsibilities of Enterprise Architects -- Interoperability Strategies for Business Agility -- Towards a Business-Oriented Specification for Services -- Model Transformation and Simulation -- Automated Model Transformations Using the C.C Language -- Improvement in the Translation Process from Natural Language to System Dynamics Models -- Developing a Simulation Model Using a SPEM-Based Process Model and Analytical Models -- Formal Modeling and Discrete-Time Analysis of BPEL Web Services.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Cooperation and Interoperability, Architecture and Ontology, CIAO!, and the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation, EOMAS, held at CAiSE 2008 in Montpellier, France, in June 2008. The 13 papers presented here were carefully selected for inclusion in this book. The scopes of these two workshops are to a large extent complementary, with CIAO! being more focused on the theory and application of enterprise engineering and EOMAS on the methods and tools for modeling and simulation. The papers cover the topics of process modeling, collaboration and interoperability, enterprise architecture, and model transformation and simulation.