This book is a revised version of the PhD dissertation written by the author at the Department of Business Informatics and Operations Management at Ghent University in Belgium. It addresses shortcomings in Business Process Management concerning loosely framed knowledge-intensive processes, which are characterized by their numerous valid process variants and their reliance on knowledge workers to apply their knowledge to decide on a suitable process variant that fits the context of a specific process execution. The goal was to lay the foundation for a process-aware business process management (IT-)system to support such processes. Several proof-of-concept implementations have been made for the core components and were evaluated in the domain of the healthcare. Starting from an artificial, but realistic, case about patients that arrive in the emergency room with suspected arm fractures and later progressing to a case study of the diagnosis and treatment of patients in the emergency department of a real hospital, using data from their patient files. In 2020, the PhD dissertation won the “CAiSE PhD award”, granted to outstanding PhD theses in the field of Information Systems Engineering.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of three international workshops held in Rome, Italy, in June 2019, associated with the 31st International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2019. These workshops were: COGNISE, The 7th International Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of Information Systems Engineering KET4DF, First International Workshop on Key Enabling Technologies for Digital Factories BIOC&FAISE, Joint Workshop on Blockchains for Inter-Organizational Collaboration and Felxible Advanced Information Systems The total of 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.

"This book outlines different tools and technologies that can be applied depending on the type of innovation an organization desires, providing concrete advice on the different types of innovation, situations in which innovation may be useful and the role of knowledge and different tools and technologies to support it"--Provided by publisher.

This book constitutes revised papers from the International Workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during September 2023. Papers from the following workshops are included:• 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Business Process Management (AI4BPM 2023)• 7th International Workshop on Business Processes Meet Internet-of-Things (BP-Meet-IoT 2023)• 19th International Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2023)• 16th International Workshop on Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2023)• 2nd International Workshop on Data-Driven Business Process Optimization (BPO 2023)• 11th International Workshop on Declarative, Decision and Hybrid Approaches to Processes (DEC2H 2023)• 1st International Workshop on Digital Twins for Business Processes (DT4BP 2023)• 1st International Workshop on Formal Methods for Business Process Management (FM-BPM 2023) • 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Business Process Management (NLP4BPM 2023)• 1st International Workshop on Object-Centric Processes from A to Z (OBJECTS 2023)• 3rd International Workshop on Change, Drift, and Dynamics of Organizational Processes (ProDy 2023) Each of the workshops focused on particular aspects of business process management. Overall, after a thorough review process, 42 full papers were selected from a total of 86 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum held at the 21st International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2023, which took place in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in September 2023. The Blockchain Forum provided a platform for exploring and discussing innovative ideas on the intersection of BPM and blockchain technology. The RPA Forum focused on the use of the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in the field of Business Process Management. The Educators Forum brought together educators within the BPM community for sharing resources to improve the practice of teaching BPM-related topics. The 18 full papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 39 submissions.

This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Exploring Service Science (IESS), held in Bucharest, Romania, in May 2016.Service science constitutes an interdisciplinary approach to systematic innovation in service systems, integrating managerial, social, legal, and engineering aspects to address the theoretical and practical challenges of the service industry and its economy. The 45 full papers and 13 short papers accepted for IESS were selected from 119 submissions. The papers consider the topics service exploration theories and processes; modeling service requirements and management of business processes; value co-creation through knowledge management and user-centric services; service design methodologies and patterns; service innovation and strategy; IT-based service engineering; servitization in sustainable manufacturing; product-service systems; business software services and data-driven service design; web service design and service-oriented agents; IoT and mobile apps for public transport service management; e-health services and medical data interoperability; and service and IT-oriented learning and education systems.

Robotics began as a science fiction creation which has become quite real, first in assembly line operations such as automobile manufacturing, aeroplane construction etc. They have now reached such areas as the Internet, ever-multiplying-medical uses and sophisticated military applications. Control of today's robots is often remote which requires even more advanced computer vision capabilities as well as sensors and interface techniques. Learning has become crucial for modern robotic systems as well. This new book brings together leading research in this exciting field.

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"This book explores the world of Decision Making Support Systems (DMSS), which encompasses Decision Support Systems (DSS), Executive Information Systems (EIS), Expert Systems (ES), Knowledge Based Systems (KBS), Creativity Enhancing Systems (CES), and more"--Provided by publisher.