A comprehensive guide to well-known workflow patterns: recurrent, generic business process constructs, described from the control-flow, data, and resource perspectives.
The study of business processes has emerged as a highly effective approach to coordinating an organization's complex service- and knowledge-based activities. The growing field of business process management (BPM) focuses on methods and tools for designing, enacting, and analyzing business processes. This volume offers a definitive guide to the use of patterns, which synthesize the wide range of approaches to modeling business processes. It provides a unique and comprehensive introduction to the well-known workflow patterns collection―recurrent, generic constructs describing common business process modeling and execution scenarios, presented in the form of problem-solution dialectics. The underlying principles of the patterns approach ensure that they are independent of any specific enabling technology, representational formalism, or modeling approach, and thus broadly applicable across the business process modeling and business process technology domains.
The authors, drawing on extensive research done by the Workflow Patterns Initiative, offer a detailed introduction to the fundamentals of business process modeling and management; describe three major pattern catalogs, presented from control-flow, data, and resource perspectives; and survey related BPM patterns. The book, a companion to the authoritative Workflow Patterns website, will be an essential resource for both academics and practitioners working in business process modeling and business process management.

Workflow Patterns: The Definitive Guide (Information Systems)

Business & Money

Russell, Nick

Van Der Aalst, Wil M.P.

Ter Hofstede, Arthur H. M.

Management & Leadership

The MIT Press

For technologists in the food industry, presents a comprehensive overview of chemicals used in foods today. Identifies the principal microorganisms that cause food poisoning and spoilage, the factors affecting their growth, and the wide range of additives used to combat them; presents the reasoning

Food Preservatives

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Springer

Join two overworked, over-stressed baby boomers as they run away from their workaholic lifestyle and find a new life and new careers wandering America's highways and back roads in search of adventure.

Meandering Down The Highway : A Year On The Road With Fulltime RVers

Travel

Reference

Publishing-Partners

Yes you can travel and earn a living too! Nick Russell shows you how. For years Nick has presented his Work Your Way Across The USA seminar at RV rallies and events across the country, and now he brings this same valuable information to you in a book. Learn how you an support your traveling lifestyle with jobs tailored for RVers and small businesses you can operate right from your home on wheels!

Work Your Way Across The USA: You Can Travel And Earn A Living Too!

It’s deer season and the mountains around Big Lake are filled with trophy hunters. But deer aren’t the only things being stalked. When Emma Moyer, Big Lake’s resident environmental activist, disrupts a guided hunt, it leads to a deadly confrontation. Now Sheriff Jim Weber has to find a killer from a list of suspects that include angry hunters, land developers, business owners, estranged family members, and others that Emma has crossed over the years. And all the while, a perilous winter storm is sweeping across the mountains, hampering his investigation and hiding secrets.Many of the characters that made the first three books in the Big Lake series such a hit are back, along with some new ones readers will remember for a long time.One reviewer has referred to the Big Lake mystery series as “Mayberry Meets Twin Peaks." It’s a combination of humor and intrigue that launched author Nick Russell’s first Big Lake book into Amazon’s Top 100 Paid Kindle books for over 78 days, and Big Lake Blizzard, the fourth book in this popular series, is sure to be a hit too!

Big Lake Blizzard

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

There Is Adventure Waiting Just Off The Highway!Speeding down an Interstate highway is no way to see America.For a real taste of our history, our culture, and adventure, you have to travel the back roads, far away from toll booths and rest area service plazas. That is where you will discover the interesting locations and fascinating stories no tourist bureau will ever tell you about.For years, Nick and Terry Russell have traveled America's back roads in search of the little known historical sites, oddball museums, and unsolved mysteries that never make it to the evening news. Come along for the ride as they explore small towns and discover wonderful bits of trivia and the stories buried along the back roads.Stories like that of West Virginia's Zona Hester Shue, the Greenbrier Ghost, who came back from the grave to see her killer brought to justice. Or the mystery of who is buried in Daniel Boone's tomb. Two states, Missouri and Kentucky, both claim to be the final resting place of the pioneer explorer.We've all heard of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. But have you ever heard of John Henry Wisdom, the Paul Revere of the South? During the Civil War, Wisdom made a longer nighttime ride than Revere did, alerting the countryside of an approaching Union army. Everybody knows about the Great Chicago Fire, which killed some 300 people. On the very same night, the entire town of Peshtigo, in northern Wisconsin, was destroyed, with ten times as many lives lost!Stories like this, along with the little-known tales of an Old West outlaw who became famous only years after he fell to a posse's guns; of a dead man who led a wagon train over the Oregon Trail; of America's only "king"; of ghosts who still haunt an old prison; of battlefields; of lady spies; historic forts; gamblers; lawmen; ancient mysteries. These stories and more await you on lonely two lane roads in every corner of America.

Highway History And Back Road Mystery

Yes, you can enjoy the RV lifestyle on a budget! Nick Russell tells you how! Fulltime RV author and publisher Nick Russell has presented his Frugal RVer seminars at RV shows and events across the country, teaching RVers how to enjoy traveling without spending a lot of money. Now you can learn these same money saving techniques to cut your travel expenses and get the most out of your RVing experiences for the least! Learn little-known secrets about: Free and low cost campgrounds Boondocking and dry camping Traveling for less Equipping your RV for low cost camping Alternative energy for your RV Communicating by phone and e-mail for less Cutting your food costs Free entertainment And much more to help you save money as you travel.

The Frugal Rver

Everybody seems to have gone crazy in the little mountain community of Big Lake, Arizona. Neighbors are threatening violence, eco-protestors are on the march, flower children are camping in the nearby forest, two of Sheriff Jim Weber’s deputies have gotten into a fistfight in the ButterCup Café, the grocery store manager has locked himself in his office and won’t come out, bears are chasing dogs into houses, and somebody has stolen the town’s mascot. As if that isn’t enough to deal with, a mild mannered retired couple have shot an intruder during a home invasion. By the time this wild tale is finished, more blood will be shed and the good people of Big Lake will be left wondering just how well they really know their neighbors. Many of the characters that made the first two books in the Big Lake book such a hit are back, along with some new ones readers will remember for a long time.One reviewer has referred to the Big Lake mystery series as “Mayberry Meets Twin Peaks." It’s a combination of humor and intrigue that launched author Nick Russell’s first Big Lake book into Amazon’s 100 Top Paid Kindle books for over 78 days, and Crazy Days in Big Lake, the third book in this popular series, is sure to be a hit too!

Crazy Days in Big Lake

Every night all across America thousands of RVers take advantage of WalMart and Sam's Club's company policy of allowing RVs to stay free overnight in their parking lots. But how do you find a convenient WalMart when you are miles away from home in strange territory? The RVers' Dashboard Companion lists every WalMart and Super WalMart store in the nation (excluding Hawaii), along with every Sam's Club store, Flying J Truck Stop, and Camping World location nationwide. Included are store addresses, telephone numbers, turn by turn driving directions from the nearest interstate, US, or state highway, as well as GPS coordinates to help you arrive by the quickest and safest route possible. Also included are notations of stores where overnight RV parking is not allowed, and stores with difficult access for big rigs. Whether you are looking for a convenient free place to park, a store where you can restock your RV's refrigerator, a WalMart pharmacy to get a prescription filled, a big rig friendly truck stop to fill your tank, or a Camping World to pick up some supplies for your home on wheels, this is the book to get you there!

Rvers' Dashboard Companion

United States

When an armored car hijacking leaves two men dead, Arizona Sheriff Jim Weber takes the crime personally, because one of the dead men is his brother-in-law. His hunt for the killers leads him into a world of sordid sex, deceit, and violence, with a suspect list that includes jilted women, a family of anti-government survivalists, and the beautiful wife of the richest man in town.With a plot that has more twists and turns than an Arizona mountain road, a cast of characters you won’t soon forget, and a shocking ending that shakes the town of Big Lake to its very foundation, this first book in the Big Lake series will keep you turning pages to the very end!

Big Lake

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