My Papers
Books
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Workflow-based Process Controlling. Foundation, Design, and Application of workflow-driven Process Information Systems. Logos, Berlin 2004. ISBN 3-8325-0388-9.
Journal Articles
- Nickerson, Jeffrey V., zur Muehlen, Michael: The Ecology of Standards Processes: Lessons from Internet Standardization. MIS Quarterly 30 (2006) 5, pp. 467-488.
- McGregor, Carolyn, Schiefer, Josef and zur Muehlen, Michael: A Shareable Web Service Based Intelligent Decision Support System for On-Demand Business Process Management.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Stohr, Edward A.: Internet-enabled Workflow Management. Editorial to the Special Issue of the Business Process Management Journal 11 (2005) 3. Emerald Publishers.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Nickerson, Jeffrey V.; Swenson, Keith D.: Developing Web Services Choreography Standards - The Case of REST vs. SOAP. Decision Support Systems 40 (2005) 1, pp. 9-29 .
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Organizational Management in Workflow Applications - Issues and Perspectives. Information Technology and Management Journal. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 5 (2004) 3-4, July - October, pp. 271-291.
- Antonucci, Yvonne L.; zur Muehlen, Michael: Creating a Collaborative B2B Environment in the Classroom: Evaluation of Methods Utilized in an International Simulation over a 4-Year Period. Information Systems Education Journal 1 (2003) 20. ISSN: 1545-679X. [Journal site] (Also appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2003: §3433. ISSN: 1542-7382.)
- zur Muehlen, Michael; v. Uthmann, Christoph: Ein Framework für die Identifikation von workflow-geeigneten Geschäftsprozessen. (A framework for the identification of workflow-fit business processes). Handbuch der Modernen Datenverarbeitung 37 (2000) 2, (Heft 213), pp. 67-79.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Monitoring und Controlling von verteilten Geschäftsprozessen (Monitoring and Controlling of Distributed Business Processes). In: Forschungsjournal der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universitaet Muenster (Research Journal of the University of Muenster). Muenster, 2 (1999), pp. 50-54. [in German]
- Becker, Joerg; zur Muehlen, Michael: Rocks, Stones and Sand – Zur Granularität von Komponenten in Workflowmanagementsystemen (Rocks, Stones and Sand – On the Granularity of Components in Workflow Management Systems). Information Management & Consulting 17 (1999) 2, pp. 57-67. [in German]
- Rosemann, Michael; zur Muehlen, Michael: Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems - a Meta Model Approach. In: Australian Journal of Information Systems 6 (1998) 1, pp. 103-116. International Journal of Business Process Integration and Management, 1 (2006) 3, pp. 156-174.
Conference Papers
- Michael zur Muehlen, Jan Recker. (Jun 16, 2008). “How Much Language is Enough? Theoretical and Practical Use of the Business Process Modeling Notation”, 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2008), Montpellier, France, June 16-20, 2008., Springer LNCS. Download (657 kb PDF)
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Ho, Danny T.: Service Process Innovation: A Case Study of BPMN in Practice. In: Ralph Sprague, Jr. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 41st Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences. Waikoloa, HI, January 7-10, 2008.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Indulska, Marta; Kamp, Gerrit: Business Process and Business Rule Modeling Languages for Compliance Management: A Representational Analysis. 26th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2007) - Poster Session. Auckland, New Zealand, November 5-9, 2007.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Indulska, Marta; Kamp, Gerrit: Business Process and Business Rule Modeling: A Representational Analysis. In: Taveter, K.; Gasevic, D. (Eds.): The 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2007). Baltimore, MD, October 15th, 2007, IEEE Publishers.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Recker, Jan; Indulska, Marta: Sometimes Less is More: Are Process Modeling Languages Overly Complex? In: Taveter, K.; Gasevic, D. (Eds.): The 3rd International Workshop on Vocabularies, Ontologies and Rules for The Enterprise (VORTE 2007). Baltimore, MD, October 15th, 2007, IEEE Publishers.
- Reijers, Hajo A.; Jansen-Vullers, Monique; zur Muehlen, Michael; Appl, Winfried: Workflow Management Systems + Swarm Intelligence = Dynamic Task Assignment for Emergency Management Applications, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Business Process Management, (Michael Rosemann, Gustavo Alonso, Peter Dadam, eds.), Brisbane, Australia, September 24th 2007.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Deokar, Amit: Business Process Automation and Management - Editorial Notes. Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, CO, August 9-12, 2007. (Invited Paper).
- Blake, M. Brian; Sliva, Amy Lynn; zur Muehlen, Michael, and Nickerson, Jeffrey V. “Binding Now or Binding Later: The Performance of UDDI Registries,” Proceedings of the 40th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-40), IEEE, Waikoloa, HI, USA, 2007.
- Raduescu, Corina, Tan, Hui-Min, Jayaganesh, Malini, Bandara, Wasana, zur Muehlen, Michael, Lippe, Sonia: A Framework of Issues in Large Process Modeling Projects. In: Proceedings of the 2006 European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2006), Goteborg, Sweden, June 12-14, 2006.
- Neiger, Dina; Churilov, Leonid; zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael: Integrating Risks in Business Process Models with Value Focused Process Engineering. In: Proceedings of the 2006 European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2006), Goteborg, Sweden, June 12-14, 2006.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael: Integrating Risks in Business Process Models. In: Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2005), Manly, Sydney, Australia, November 30-December 2, 2005.
(Winner of the ACIS 2005 Best Paper Award) - zur Muehlen, Michael; Ho, Danny Ting-Yi: Risk Management in the BPM Lifecycle. In: Bussler, Christoph; Haller, Armin (Eds.): Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2005 International Workshops, BPI, BPD, ENEI, BPRM, WSCOBPM, BPS, Nancy, France, September 5, 2005. Revised Selected Papers, Springer LNCS 3812, Berlin 2006, pp. 454-466.
- Bin Lai, Maggie; zur Muehlen, Michael: Information Requirements of Process Stakeholders: A Framework to Evaluate Process Monitoring and Controlling Applications. In: Eds.:. J. Akoka, I. Comyn-Wattiau and M. Favier. Proceedings of the Pre-ICIS workshop on Process Management. Washington, D.C., December 12, 2004.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael: Multi-Paradigm Process Management. In: Proceedings of CAiSE’04 Workshops - 5th Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support (BPMDS 2004). Eds.: Janis Grundspenkis, Marite Kirikova, Riga, Latvia, 2004, pp. 169-175.
- Nickerson, Jeffrey V.; zur Muehlen, M.: Defending the Spirit of the Web: Conflicts in the Internet Standards Process. in Proceedings of the Workshop on Standard Making: A Critical Research Frontier for Information Systems, John L. King and Kalle Lyytinen, (eds.), Seattle, WA, December 12-14, 2003, pp. 327-343.
- Antonucci, Yvonne L.; zur Muehlen, Michael: Creating a Collaborative B2B Environment in the Classroom: Evaluation of Methods Utilized in an International Simulation over a 4-Year Period. Proceedings of the ISECON 2003 Conference, San Diego, CA, November 2003.
(Winner of the ISECON meritorious paper award, also appeared in ISEDJ 1 (2003) 20, see above) - zur Muehlen, Michael; Nickerson, Jeffrey V.; Stohr, Edward A.: Process Integration – From Workflow Models to Web Services Choreography. Proceedings of the EURO/INFORMS Conference 2003, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2003.
- Antonucci, Yvonne L.; Greenberg, Penelope Sue; zur Muehlen, Michael; Greenberg, Ralph: Establishing Trust in a Business-to-Business Collaboration: Results from an International Simulation. Proceedings of the IRMA 2003 Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 2003, pp. 922-924.
- Holten, Roland; Dreiling, Alexander; zur Muehlen, Michael; Becker, Joerg: Enabling Technologies for Supply Chain Process Management. Proceedings of the IRMA 2002 Conference, Seattle, May 2002.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Process-driven Management Information Systems – Combining Data Warehouses and Workflow Technology. Gavish, B. (Ed.): International Conference on Electronic Commerce Research (ICECR-4), Dallas, Nov. 8-11, 2001, pp. 550-566.
- Antonucci, Yvonne L.; zur Muehlen, Michael: Deployment of Business to Business Scenarios in ERP Education: Evaluation and Experiences from an International Collaboration. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMICS 2001), Boston, Aug. 3-5, 2000.
- Antonucci, Yvonne L.; zur Muehlen, Michael: Distance Learning - Extending the Classroom Walls with ERP Software. ISECON Conference 2000, Philadelphia, Nov. 11th, 2000.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: A Framework for XML-based Workflow Interoperability – The AFRICA Project. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2000), Long Beach, CA, August 13-18, 2000.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Klein, Florian: AFRICA: Workflow Interoperability based on XML-messages. CAiSE 2000 Workshop on Infrastructures for Dynamic Business-to-Business Service Outsourcing (ISDO ’00). Stockholm, Sweden, June 5-6, 2000.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael: Workflow-based Process Monitoring and Controlling – Technical and Organizational Issues. In: Sprague, R. Jr. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 4th-7th 2000. Wailea. IEEE Publishers, Los Alamitos 2000.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Resource Modeling in Workflow Applications. In: Becker, J.; zur Muehlen, M.; Rosemann, M. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 1999 Workflow Management Conference, Muenster, November 9th 1999, pp. 137-153.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Becker, Joerg: Workflow Management and Object-Orientation – A Matter of Perspectives or Why Perspectives Matter. In: Proceedings of the 2nd OOPSLA Workshop on the Design and Application of Object-Oriented Workflow Management Systems, Denver, November 1st 1999.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Becker, Joerg: WPDL – State-of-the-Art and Development Perspectives of a Meta-Language. In: Proceedings of the 1st KnowTech Forum, September 17th-19th 1999, Potsdam 1999.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Stand-alone vs. ERP-based Workflow Management – Lessons from the field. In: Proceedings of the 1999 Giga Business Process and Workflow Management Conference. Brussels, 11th October 1999.
- Becker, Joerg; zur Muehlen, Michael: Application Granularity within Workflow Management Systems. In: Jarke, M. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering 1999 (CAiSE 99), Heidelberg 1999, pp. 411-416.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Integrationsperspektiven des Workflowmanagement (Integration Perspectives of Workflow Management). In: Scheer, A.-W.; Rosemann, M.; Schuette, R. (Eds.): Integrationsmanagement. Working Paper No. 65 of the Department of Information Systems. Muenster 1999, pp. 94-106. [in German]
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems Using Meta Models. In: Sprague, R. Jr. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. Minitrack: Workflow and Reengineering on the Internet. Wailea, Maui 1999. (Nominated for Best Paper Award)
- Becker, Joerg; v. Uthmann, Christoph; zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael: Identifying the Workflow Potential of Business Processes. In: Sprague, R. Jr. (Ed.): Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences. Minitrack: Workflow and Reengineering on the Internet. Wailea, Maui 1999.
- Rosemann, Michael; zur Muehlen, Michael: Modellierung der Aufbauorganisation in Workflow-Management-Systemen: Kritische Bestandsaufnahme und Gestaltungsvorschlaege. (Organizational Modeling in Workflow Management Systems - State-of-the-Art and Design Options). In: Jablonski, St. (Ed.): Proceedings of the EMISA-Fachgruppentreffen 1997. Darmstadt 1997, pp. 100-118. also published in: EMISA-Forum 1 (1998), pp. 78-84. [in German]
- Rosemann, Michael; zur Muehlen, Michael: Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems - a Meta Model Approach. In: Siau, K.; Wand, Y.; Parsons, J. (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2nd CAiSE/IFIP 8.1 International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD `97), Barcelona June 16th-17th 1997.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael: Der Loesungsbeitrag von Metadatenmodellen beim Vergleich von Workflowmanagementsystemen. (Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems using Meta Data Models). In: Becker, J.; Rosemann, M. (Eds.): Workflowmanagement - State-of-the-Art aus Sicht von Theorie und Praxis. Proceedings of the 2nd Workflow Workshop Muenster. Muenster 1996, pp. 11-19. [in German]
Tutorials
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Business Process Automation - Trends and Issues. Workshop at the 2004 Americas Conference on Information Systems, New York, NY, August 5th 2004.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Zhao, J.-Leon: Workflow Management in the Age of E-Business. Tutorial at the 35th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 4th 2002. Waikoloa, Hawaii 2002.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Swenson, Keith D.: XML-based Standards for Process Integration. XML World Conference November 27th, 2001. San Francisco, CA, 2001.
- Stohr, Edward A.; zur Muehlen, Michael; Zhao, J.-Leon: Workflow and E-Business Applications. Tutorial at the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 3rd 2001. Maui, Hawaii 2001.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Inter-organizational Workflow Management and Business-to-Business Process Integration. Institute for International Research. November 22nd, 2000. Vienna, Austria, 2000.
- Hollingsworth, David; Marin, Mike; zur Muehlen, Michael; Schmidt, Marc-Thomas: XML-Standards for Process Interoperability. XML World Conference September 4th, 2000. Boston, MA, 2000.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Workflow Technology and E-Commerce Applications. Tutorial at the America’s Conference on Information Systems. August 10th 2000. Long Beach, CA 2000.
- Stohr, Edward A.; zur Muehlen, Michael; Zhao, J.-Leon; Huth, Carsten: Workflow Management Systems. Tutorial at the 33rd Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. January 4th 2000. Maui, Hawaii 2000.
Book Chapters
- Michael Genrich, Alex Kokkonen, Jürgen Moormann, Michael zur Muehlen, Roger Tregear, Jan Mendling and Barbara Weber. (Feb 29, 2008). “Challenges for Business Process Intelligence: Discussions at the BPI Workshop 2007″, Arthur ter Hofstede, Boualem Benatallah, Hye-Young Paik, Business Process Management Workshops, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer LNCS. 4928. Download (163 kb PDF) Springer Link Website
- Mendling, Jan; zur Muehlen, Michael; Price, Adrian: Standards for Workflow Definition and Execution. In: Dumas, Marlon; ter Hofstede, Arthur; van der Aalst, Wil M. P. (Eds.): Process-Aware Information Systems. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2005.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Further Applications of Process Models - Beyond Reengineering. In: Becker, Jörg; Kugeler, Martin, Rosemann, Michael (Eds.): Process Management. Springer Verlag. Berlin et al. 2003.
- Becker, Jörg; zur Muehlen, Michael; Gille, Marc: Workflow Application Architectures: Classification and Characteristics of workflow-based Information Systems. In: Fischer, L. (Ed.): Workflow Handbook 2002. Future Strategies, Lighthouse Point, FL 2002, pp. 39-50.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Workflow und Prozessmodellierung bei einem Energieversorgungsunternehmen [Workflow and Business Process Modeling at a Public Utility Enterprise]. In: Becker, J.; Kugeler, M.; Rosemann, M. (Eds.): Prozessmanagement. 3rd, completely revised edition. Springer, Berlin et al. 2001, pp. 517-538.
- zur Muehlen, Michael, Hansmann, Holger: Workflowmanagement. In: Becker, J.; Kugeler, M.; Rosemann, M. (Eds.): Prozessmanagement. 3rd, completely revised edition. Springer, Berlin et al. 2001, pp. 373-410.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Workflow-based Process Controlling - Or: What You Can Measure You Can Control. In: Fischer, Layna (2000): Workflow Handbook 2001, Lighthouse Point, FL, 2000, pp. 61-77.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Allen, Robert: Stand-Alone vs. Embedded Workflow – Putting Paradigms in Perspective. In: Fischer, Layna (Ed.): Excellence in Practice Vol. IV., Lighthouse Point, FL 2000.
- Becker, Joerg; zur Muehlen, Michael: Workflow Management in the Age of E-Business. Foreword to: Karl, R. (Ed.): dsk Workflow Study 2000.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Beyond Reengineering. In: Becker, J.; Kugeler, M.; Rosemann, M. (Eds.): Prozessmanagement. Springer, Berlin et al. 1999, pp. 285-327. (also 2nd and 3rd Edition).
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael: Diagrammsprachliche Methoden. (Graphical Workflow Modeling Languages). (with M. Rosemann) In: Jablonski, St.; Boehm, M.; Schulze, W. (Eds.): Workflow-Management: Entwicklung von Anwendungen und Systemen - Facetten einer neuen Technologie. Bonn et al. 1997, pp. 162-170. [in German]
Working Papers / Technical Reports
- zur Muehlen, M.; Junkers, C.; Baumgart, A.: A Procedure Model for the Identification of Risk in Business Processes.Working Paper 2006-01 of the Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation (CEBPI), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 2006.
- Kamp, G.; zur Muehlen, M.; Ho, D.T.-Y.: An Ontological Evaluation of Process Modeling and Rule Modeling Languages for Compliance Management. Working Paper 2006-02 of the Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation (CEBPI), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 2006.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Bin Lai, Maggie: Organizational Assessment of the Black Forest Group Cube. Working Paper of the Center for Technology Management Research (CTMR), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, 2003.
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Internet: Historie und Technik. Becker, J. et al. (Eds.): Working Paper No. 66 of the Department of Information Systems. University of Muenster June 1999.
- zur Muehlen, Michael; Allen, Rob: Workflow Management Coalition Classification: Embedded and Autonomous Workflow. WfMC White Paper. Lighthouse Point, March 10th, 2000.
- Rosemann, Michael; zur Muehlen, Michael: Der Loesungsbeitrag von Metadatenmodellen beim Vergleich von Workflowmanagementsystemen (Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems - A Meta Model Approach). In: Becker, J. et al. (Eds.): Working Paper No. 48 of the Department of Information Systems. University of Muenster 1996. [in German]
Editorship
- Stohr, Edward A.; zur Muehlen, Michael (Guest Editors): Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management. Business Process Management - Impact on Organizational Flexibility. Special Issue, Forthcoming (2008)
- Rosemann, Michael; zur Muehlen, Michael (Guest Editors): Information Systems and e-Business Research. Special Issue on Business Process Management, Forthcoming (2008).
- Rosemann, Michael; zur Muehlen, Michael (Guest Editors): Enterprise Systems and Information Systems Architectures (EMISA). Special Issue on Business Process Management, Forthcoming (2008).
- Stohr, Edward A.; zur Muehlen, Michael (Guest Editors): Business Process Management Journal. Special Issue on Internet-enabled Workflow Management. 11 (2005) 3.
- Becker, Joerg; zur Muehlen, Michael; Rosemann, Michael (Eds.): Proceedings of the 1999 Workflow Management Conference. Muenster, November 9th 1999.
Reviews
- Mattison, Rob: Data Warehousing and Data Mining for Telecommunications. Artech House Publishers. Boston et al. 1997. Wirtschaftsinformatik 40 (1998) 6, pp. 563-564. [in German]
- Nakhaeizadeh, Gholamreza (Ed.): Data Mining - Theoretische Aspekte und Anwendungen. Physica-Verlag. Heidelberg 1998. Wirtschaftsinformatik online. http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de [in German]
- Zwass, Vladimir: Foundations of Information Systems. McGraw-Hill. Boston et al. 1998. Wirtschaftsinformatik online. http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de [in German]
- Bussler, Christoph: Organisationsverwaltung in Workflow-Management-Systemen. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag. Wiesbaden 1998. Wirtschaftsinformatik online. http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de [in German]
- Conen, Wolfram; Neumann, Gustaf (Eds.): Coordination Technology for Collaborative Applications – Organizations, Processes and Agents. Springer-Verlag, Berlin et al. 1998. Wirtschaftsinformatik online. http://www.wirtschaftsinformatik.de [in German]
Master’s Thesis
- zur Muehlen, Michael: Der Loesungsbeitrag von Metamodellen und Kontrollflußprimitiven beim Vergleich von Workflowmanagementsystemen (Evaluation of Workflow Management Systems using Meta Models and Control Flow Elements). Diploma Thesis at the Chair of Information Systems and Information Management; Department of Information Systems; University of Muenster. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Joerg Becker, Dr. Michael Rosemann. Muenster 1996.


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