There is a global consensus on the need to reduce our collective carbon footprint. While much research attention has focused on developing alternative energy sources, automotive technologies or waste disposal techniques, we often ignore the fact that the ability to optimize (existing) operations to reduce their emissions impact is fundamental to this exercise. Business process management (BPM) technology, with its focus on understanding, modelling and improving/optimizing business processes, is a key starting point. Process modelling technology has applications beyond what we would traditionally describe as business processes -we can also model and improve manufacturing and other "physical" processes. This paper describes the contours of the emerging research landscape in green business process management and presents some early results in this area.

To align an IT system with an organization's needs, it is necessary to understand the organization 's position within its environment as well as its internal configuration. In SEAM for enterprise architecture the organization is considered as a hierarchy of systems that span from business down to IT. The alignment process addresses the complete hierarchy. We illustrate the use of SEAM for enterprise architecture with an example in which a new hiring process and an IT system are developed. With this approach it is possible to train new engineers in the design of business and IT alignment. It is also possible to scope projects in a way that integrate both business and IT strategies. This enables the consideration of IT developments in an enterprise-wide context. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics Publication DetailsWegmann, A., Regev, G., Rychkova, I., Le, L., Cruz, J. & Julia, P. (2007)

There is a global consensus on the need to reduce our collective carbon footprint. While much research attention has focused on developing alternative energy sources, automotive technologies or waste disposal techniques, we often ignore the fact that the ability to optimize (existing) operations to reduce their emissions impact is fundamental to this exercise. We believe that by transforming the problem into the domain of Business Process Management (BPM) we can leverage the rich expertise in this field to address issues associated with identifying areas for improvement, understanding the implication and performing carbon footprint minimization. We will use the term "Green BPM" to describe a novel class of technologies that leverage and extend existing BPM technology to enable process design, analysis, execution and monitoring in a manner informed by the carbon footprint of process designs and instances. This article describes the first steps in the development of this class of technologies.

Enterprise architecture (EA) projects require analyzing and designing across the whole enterprise and its environment. Enterprise architects, therefore, frequently develop enterprise models that span from the markets in which the organization operates down to the implementation of the IT systems that support its operations. In this paper, we present SEAM for EA: a method for defining an enterprise model in which all the systems are systematically represented with the same modeling ontology. We base our modeling ontology on the foundation modeling concepts defined in Part 2 of ISO/ITU Standard ''Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing'' (RM-ODP). This work has two contributions to enterprise architecture: the SEAM for EA method itself and the use of Part 2 of the RM-ODP standard as a modeling ontology.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) models the whole vision of an organisation in various aspects regarding both business processes and information technology resources. As the organisation grows, tbe architecture governing its systems and processes must also evolve to meet with the demands of the business environment. In this context, a critical issue is change propagation: given a set of primary changes that have been made to the EA model, what additional secondary changes are needed to maintain consistency across multiple levels of the EA. This paper proposes an enterprise architectural description language, namely ChangeAwareHierarchicalEA, integrated with a framework to support change propagation within an EA model. The core part of our change propagation framework is a new method for generating interactive repair plans from Alloy consistency rules that constrain the EA model. Disciplines Physical Sciences and Mathematics Publication DetailsDam, H. Khanh., Le, L. & Ghose, A. (2010 Abstract-Enterprise Architecture (EA) models the whole vision of an organisation in various aspects regarding both business processes and information technology resources. As the organisation grows, the architecture governing its systems and processes must also evolve to meet with the demands of the business environment. In this context, a critical issue is change propagation: given a set of primary changes that have been made to the EA model, what additional secondary changes are needed to maintain consistency across multiple levels of the EA. This paper proposes an enterprise architectural description language, namely ChangeAwareHierarchicalEA, integrated with a framework to support change propagation within an EA model. The core part of our change propagation framework is a new method for generating interactive repair plans from Alloy consistency rules that constrain the EA model.