Selected publications
Journal Papers
Haisjackl C., Barba I., Zugal S., Soffer P., Hadar I., Reichert M., Pinggera
J., Weber B, Understanding declarative process models: Strategies, Pitfalls,
Empirical Results, Software and Systems Modeling
Outmazgin N., Soffer P., A process mining-based analysis of business
process workarounds, Software and Systems Modeling
Soffer P., Wand
Y., Kaner M., Conceptualizing Routing Decisions in
Business Processes: Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Testing, Journal of
the Association of Information Systems
Hadar I., Soffer
P., Kenzi K., 2014, The Role
Of Domain Knowledge In Requirements Elicitation Via Interviews: An Exploratory
Study, Requirements Engineering, 19(2), pp. 143-159
Ghattas J., Soffer
P., Peleg M., 2013, Improving Business Process Decision Making Based on Past
Experience, Decision Support Systems 59, pp. 93–107
Zugal S., Soffer P., Haisjackl C., Pinggera P., Reichert M., Weber B., 2013, Investigating
expressiveness and understandability of hierarchy in declarative business
process models, Software and Systems Modeling (2013) pp. 1-23
Pinggera J., Soffer P., Fahland D., Weidlich M., Zugal S., Weber B., Reijers H.A., Mendling J., 2013,
Styles in business process modeling: an exploration and a model, Software
and Systems Modeling (2013) pp. 1-26
Soffer P.,
2013, A State-based Intention Driven Declarative Process Model, International
Journal of Information Systems Modeling and Design 4(2), pp. 44-64
Ghattas J., Soffer P., Peleg M., Denekamp Y.,
2013, Data Requirements for Process Learning, International Journal of
Knowledge-Based Organizations 3(1), pp. 1-18
Kuflik
T., Soffer P., Reinhartz-Berger
I., Jbara S. , Stock O., 2011,
Generic Framework for Context-Aware Communication Services in Visitor’s Guides,
Journal of Software Engineering and Applications 4(4), pp. 286-281
Reinhartz-Berger
I., Soffer P. and Sturm A., Extending the
Adaptability of Reference Models, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics part
A 40(5), pp. 1045-1056
Soffer
P., Kaner M., and Wand Y. Assigning Ontological
Meaning to Workflow Nets, Journal of Database Management 21(3) pp. 1-35
Soffer
P. and Kaner M., Complementing Business Process
Verification by Validity Analysis: a Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation, Journal of Database Management 22(3), pp. 1-23.
Ghattas J. and Soffer
P., 2009, Evaluation of Inter-Organizational Business Process Solutions: A
Conceptual Model-Based Approach, Information Systems Frontiers,
11(3), pp. 273–291.
Reinhartz-Berger I., Soffer P. and Sturm A., 2009, Organizational Reference Models:
Supporting an Adequate Design of Local
Business Processes, International Journal of Business
Process Integrations and Management 4(2), pp. 134-149.
Ghattas
J. and Soffer P., 2008, Facilitating Flexibility in
Inter-Organizational Processes: A Conceptual Model, International
Journal of Business Process Integration and Management 3(1), pp. 5-15
Soffer P. and Hadar
I., 2007, Applying Ontology-Based Rules to Conceptual Modeling: A Reflection on
Modeling Decision Making, European Journal of Information Systems
16(4), pp. 599-611
Soffer P. and Wand Y.,
Goal-Driven Multi-Process Analysis, 2007, Journal of the AIS, 8(3),
p. 175-202
Hadar I. and Soffer P., 2006, Variations in Conceptual Modeling:
Classification and Ontological Analysis, Journal of the AIS, 7(8),
p. 568-592
Soffer P., 2005,
Scope Analysis: Identifying the Impact of Changes in Business Process Models,
Software Process Improvement and Practice (10)4, p. 393-402
Soffer P., 2005,
Structural Equivalence in Model-Based Reuse: Overcoming Differences in
Abstraction Level, Journal of Database Management 16(3), p.
21-39
Soffer P., Golany B. and Dori D., 2005,
Aligning an ERP System with Enterprise Requirements: An Object-Process Based
Approach, Computers in Industry, 56, p. 639-662
Soffer P. and Wand Y., 2005, On the Notion of Soft Goals in
Business Process Modeling, Business Process Management Journal (11)6, pp. 663-679
Soffer P., Golany
B. and Dori D., 2003, ERP Modeling: A Comprehensive
Approach, Information Systems, 28(6), p. 673-690
Soffer
P., Golany B., Dori D. and Wand Y., 2001, Modelling Off-the-Shelf Information
Systems Requirements: An Ontological Approach, Requirements Engineering
6(3), p. 183-199.
Dar-El E., Soffer
P., Molcho I. and Shtrichman
O., 1991, A
Two-tier Hierarchical Scheduler for the Micro-Electronic Industry, International
Journal of Production Economics, vol. 25, p. 81-87.
Conference Proceedings
Wolf, I., Soffer, P., 2014,
Supporting BPMN Model Creation with Routing Patterns. In Advanced
Information Systems Engineering Workshops, LNBIP 178, Springer, pp. 171-181
Raichelson, L., Soffer, P., 2014, Merging
Event Logs with Many to Many Relationships, BPI 2014
Outmazgin N. and Soffer P., 2013, Business Process Workarounds: What Can and
Cannot be Detected by Process Mining, Enterprise, Business-Process and
Information Systems Modeling, LNBIP 147, Springer, pp 48-62
Haisjackl C., Zugal S., Soffer P., Hadar I., Reichert M., Pinggera
J., Weber B. 2013, Making Sense of Declarative Process Models: Common
Strategies and Typical Pitfalls, Enterprise, Business-Process and
Information Systems Modeling, LNBIP 147, Springer, pp 2-17
Sacchi L., Fux A., Napolitano C., Panzarasa
S., Peleg P., Quaglini S., Shalom E., Soffer P., Tormene P., 2013,
Patient-tailored Workflow Patterns from Clinical Practice Guidelines
Recommendations, Medinfo 2013
Pinggera J., Soffer P., Zugal S., Weber B., Weidlich M., Fahland D, Reijers H. A., and Mendling J,
2012, Modeling styles in business process modeling, Enterprise,
Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling, LNBIP 113, Springer,
151-166.
Zugal S., Soffer P., Pinggera J., and Weber
B., 2012, Expressiveness and Understandability Considerations of Hierarchy in
Declarative Business Process Models, In Enterprise, Business-Process
and Information Systems Modeling, LNBIP 113, Springer 167-181
Limonad, L., Varshney, L. R.,
Oppenheim, D. V., Fein, E., Soffer, P., Wand,
Y., Chee, Y.M., Gavish, M., Anaby-Tavor,
A. (2012). The WaaSaBE model: Marrying WaaS and Business-Entities to Support Cross-Organization
Collaboration Using Commitment-Centric Analysis, Proceedings of SRII Global
Conference (“IT-Enabled Services”), San Jose, California, July 2012. 303-312.
Soffer P., Kaner
M., and Wand Y., 2012, Towards Understanding the Process of Process
Modeling: Theoretical and Empirical Considerations, In BPM 2011 Workshops Proceedings, LNBIP
99, Springer-Verlag, pp. 357-369
Soffer P. and Yehezkel T., 2011, A State-based Context-aware Declarative
Process Model, Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems
Modeling BPMDS 2011 (LNBIP 81), pp. 148-162, Springer
Soffer, P, 2010, Mirror, Mirror on the
Wall, Can I Count on You at all? Exploring Data Inaccuracy in Business
Processes, Proceedings of BPMDS 2010
J.
Ghattas, P. Soffer, M. Peleg, 2009, A Formal Model for
Process Context Learning,
Workshop on Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2009)
J. Ghattas, M. Peleg, P. Soffer and Y. Denekamp, 2009, Learning the Context of a Clinical Process, Workshop on health-care processes (PROHealth 2009)
D. Mezebovski,
P. Soffer, I. Shimshoni,
2009, Pattern Mining in System Logs: Opportunities for Process Improvement,
Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (LNBIP 29), pp.
162-173.
Soffer P., Kaner
M. and Wand Y., 2008, Assigning Ontology-Based Semantics to
Process Models: the Case of Petri Nets, Advanced Information Systems
Engineering (CAiSE’08) (LNCS 5074), pp. 16-31.
Ghattas J., Soffer P., and Peleg M., 2008, A Goal-based Approach for
Business Process Learning, Proceedings of CAiSE
Workshops, Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Development, and Support,
pp. 76-85.
Jbara S., Kuflik
T., Soffer P., and Stock O., 2008, “Generic Communication
Service Agents for Mobile Applications in Cultural Heritage Sites”. 2008 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Human-Machine
Systems. Athens,Greece,
March 9-12 2008. pp. 353-359
Jbara S., Kuflik
T., Soffer P., and Stock O., 2007, Context Aware
Communication Services in “Active Museums”, Proceedings of IEEE
International Conference on Software-Science, Technology and Engineering, Herzliya, Israel, October 2007.
Ghattas J., Soffer P., and Peleg M., 2007, Learning Business Process
Models: A Case Study, 1st International Workshop on Process-oriented
Information Systems in Healthcare, Brisbane, Australia, September 2007.
Peleg M, Soffer P.,
and Ghattas J., 2007, Mining Process Execution and
Outcomes, 1st International Workshop on Process-oriented Information
Systems in Healthcare, Brisbane, Australia, September 2007.
Soffer P., Wand Y., and Kaner, M., 2007, Semantic Analysis of Flow Patterns in
Business Process Modeling, Proceedings of Business Process Management
(BPM’07) (LNCS 4714), Springer-Verlag, Berlin,
pp. 400-407.
Soffer, P., Reinhartz-Berger, I., and Sturm, A., 2007, Facilitating
Reuse by Specialization of Reference Models for Business Process Design,
Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Design and Support (BPMDS’07), Proceedings
of CAiSE’07 Workshops, pp. 339-348.
Kuflik T., Sheidin J., Jbara S., Goren-Bar
D., Soffer P., Stock O., and Zancanaro
M., 2007, Supporting Small Groups in the Museum by Context-Aware Communication
Services, Proceedings of 2007
International conference on intelligent user interfaces, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. 28-31 January 2007, pp.
305-308.
Soffer P. and Ghattas J., 2006, Business Process Flexibility in Virtual
Organizations, Workshop on Business Process Modeling, Design and Support
(BPMDS’06), Proceedings of CAiSE’06 Workshops, p. 188-197
Soffer P. and Rolland C., 2005, Combining Intention-Oriented and
State-Based Process Modeling, International
Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2005) (LNCS 3716), p. 47-62.
Reinhartz-Berger I., Soffer P., and Sturm A., 2005, A Domain Engineering
Approach to Specifying and Applying Reference Models, Enterprise Modelling
and Information Systems Architectures Workshop (EMISA’05), Klagenfurt, Austria,
p. 50-63.
Soffer P., Goldin
L. and Kuflik T., 2005, A
Unified RE Approach for Software Product Evolution: Challenges and Research
Agenda, Proceedings of SREP’05, Paris, France,
p. 200-210
Soffer P., 2005, On
the Notion of Flexibility in Business Processes, Workshop on Business
Process Modeling, Design and Support (BPMDS’05), Proceedings of CAiSE’05
Workshops, p. 35-42
Soffer P. and Wand Y.,
2004, Goal-driven Analysis of Process Model Validity, Advanced
Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE’04) (LNCS 3084), p. 521-535
Soffer P. 2004, Analyzing
the Scope of a Change in a Business Process Model, CAiSE’04 Workshops
Proceedings vol. 2 p. 200-206
Soffer P., 2003, Reusing Models of Different
Abstraction Levels, CAiSE’03 Forum Proceedings Short Papers, Velden, Austria, p. 209-211
Soffer P. and Hadar I., 2003, Reusability of Conceptual Models: The
Problem of Model Variations, Proceedings of the Eighth CAiSE/IFIP International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling
Methods in Systems Analysis and Design (EMMSAD’03), Velden,
Austria (on CD).
Soffer P., 2003,
Aligning an Enterprise System with Enterprise Requirements: an Iterative
Process, Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Angers,
France,
Vol 3 p. 147-155
Soffer P., 2001, Process and Language
Requirements for ERP Modeling, Proceedings of the Sixth CAiSE/IFIP
International Workshop on Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis
and Design (EMMSAD’01), Interlaken, Switzerland, p. X-1 – X-8.
Soffer P., 2000, Matching Enterprise
Requirements with ERP System Capabilities, In A.Hinze,
B-J.Hommes (Eds.): Proceedings of the 7th Doctoral
Consortium at the CAiSE*00, Stockholm, Sweden,
June 5th-6th 2000, Technical Report No B 00-23,Intitute of Computer Science, Freie Universitat Berlin, p.
93-104.
Soffer P., 2000, A Requirement Driven
Approach to Business Application Implementation, Proceedings of USP
Roundtable Conference 2000 on E-enterprise Structure and Analysis, Haifa,
Israel (on CD)
Golany B. , Dori
D. and Soffer P., A Methodology for Adapting an ERP
System to an Enterprise, Proceedings of the 10th Conference of
Industrial Engineering and Management, Haifa, Israel, June 1998, p. 393-397
(in Hebrew).
Book Chapters
Soffer P., Reinhartz-Berger
I. and Sturm A., 2007, Matching Models of Different Abstraction Levels: A
Refinement Equivalence Approach, In: Siau
K. (Ed.), Contemporary Issues in Database Design and Information Systems
Development, IGI Publishing, Hershey, New York, p. 89-122
Soffer P.,
Ghattas J., Peleg M., 2010, A Goal-Based Approach for
Learning in Business Processes, In: Nurcan, Salinesi, Souveyet, Ralyté (eds),
Intentional Perspectives on Information Systems Engineering, Springer
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