Business processes are instrumental to manage work in organisations. To study the interdependencies between business processes, Business Process Architectures have been introduced. These express trigger and message ow relations between business processes. When we investigate real world Business Process Architectures, we find complex interdependencies, involving multiple process instances. These aspects have not been studied in detail so far, especially concerning correctness properties. In this paper, we propose a modular transformation of BPAs to open nets for the analysis of behavior involving multiple business processes with multiplicities. For this purpose we introduce intermediary nets to portray semantics of multiplicity specifications. We evaluate our approach on a use case from the public sector.

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The purpose of this research is to document data on the implementation and integration of computer networking capabilities and activities in regular classrooms, looking specifically at the expectations and concerns of those involved (school administrators and teachers), and at the issue of integrating the networking capabilities with the regular curriculum. The outcomes of the research will be recommendations on practices that produce successful or unsuccessful implementation of network-based classroom activities. Particular attention is given to Internet-based K--12 classroom activities and to the creation of electronic communities of learners.

This thesis is an examination of a population genetic database as both a social and scientific entity. Science and social science usually operate in a dichotomy this is a synergy of the two. The thesis examines practices and processes, and reveals how the formation of the Generation Scotland assemblage is the producer of multiple disconnections and connections layered in the science, technology, objects, people and places. The story is based on a multi‐sited ethnography that moves from the medical setting of blood sample and data collection, through the practices and processes of the laboratory, to end up in the much more diffuse settings of computer analysis. The blood sample is transformed into digital genetic data, and then connected to diverse other data for research. It traces the transformation and aggregation of heterogeneous elements which will become fixed in the population genetic database through scientific ordering and relationships which will be rendered immutable by the technology. In the processes described here, people’s bodies, and information about them, are explicitly rendered as research ‘resources’. The thesis contributes to the growing knowledge of population genetic databases, and it is a response to calls from social science to understand better the science and technology that are currently changing the shape of the social world. Disconnections and connections are creating a framework of new referents between health and illness, identity and relationships in a way that rearticulates the body and the population.

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By way of a case study this paper illustrates and evaluates the Bibliographic Framework (or BIBFRAME) as means for harvesting and sharing bibliographic metadata over the Web for libraries. BIBFRAME is an emerging framework developed by the Library of Congress for bibliographic description based on Linked Data. Much like Semantic Web, the goal of Linked Data is to make Web “data aware” and transform the existing Web of documents into a Web of data. Linked Data leverages the existing Web infrastructure and allows linking and sharing of structured data for human and machine consumption. The BIBFRAME model attempts to contextualize the Linked Data technology for libraries. Library applications and systems contain high-quality structured metadata but this data is generally static in its presentation and seldom integrated with other internal metadata sources or linked to external Web resources. With BIBFRAME existing disparate library metadata sources such as catalogs and digital collections can be harvested and integrated over the Web. In addition, bibliographic data enriched with Linked Data could offer richer navigational control and access points for users. With Linked Data principles, metadata from libraries could also become harvestable by search engines, transforming dormant catalogs and digital collections into active knowledge repositories. Thus experimenting with Linked Data using existing bibliographic metadata holds the potential to empower libraries to harness the reach of commercial search engines to continuously discover, navigate, and obtain new domain specific knowledge resources on the basis of their verified metadata. The initial part of the paper introduces BIBFRAME and discusses Linked Data in the context of libraries. The final part of this paper outlines a step-by-step process for implementing BIBFRAME with existing library metadata.