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Towards a Non-workflow Theory of Business Processes

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 132))

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The keynote overviews the efforts of a group of researchers and practitioners to build and test a theory of business processes (BP) that could be of use for building non-workflow based business processes support (BPS) systems. The background for these efforts lies in two scientific disciplines outside the domain of Business Process Management, namely: Systems Thinking and Mathematical System Theory.

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  1. DSV, Stockholm University/IbisSoft, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

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  1. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia

    Marcello La Rosa

  2. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Pnina Soffer

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Bider, I. (2013). Towards a Non-workflow Theory of Business Processes. In: La Rosa, M., Soffer, P. (eds) Business Process Management Workshops. BPM 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 132. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36285-9_1

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