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Recent developments in the field of business process management have made it possible to effectively deal with large collections of process models that exhibit many similarities but also context-dependent differences. In this paper these developments are exploited in the domain of screen business.

Besides classical criteria such as cost and overall organizational efficiency, an organization’s ability to be creative and to innovate is of increasing importance in markets that are overwhelmed with commodity products and services. Business Process Management (BPM) as an approach to model, analyze, and improve business processes has been successfully applied not only to enhance performance and reduce cost but also to facilitate business imperatives such as risk management and knowledge management. Can BPM also facilitate the management of creativity?

Television Truths considers what we know about TV, whether we love it or hate it, where TV is going, and whether viewers should bother going along for the ride.

Reference models are a widely accepted means to facilitate reusable information system and organizational design. At present, besides domain knowledge, the configuration of reference models requires a thorough understanding of both the reference model and the language it is captured in. This hinders the involvement of domain experts without specialized modeling background, in the configuration of reference models. In this paper, we propose a questionnaire-driven approach to reference model configuration which abstracts away from the modeling language.

2006 marks the fiftieth anniversary of broadcast television in Australia. It was launched in Sydney and Melbourne in 1956, just in time for the Melbourne Olympic Games.

‘Politicotainment’: The very form of Kristina Riegert’s neologism says something about how the realms of politics and entertainment have crash-merged. The term itself is not a pretty sight, perhaps because it describes an unlikely amalgam; two opposing worlds whose 'heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together,' as Dr Johnson would have put it. The resulting idea is counter-intuitive, since it seems to betray the essence of both of the originating terms. Surely entertainment is characterized by escapism; while politics ought not to be confused with private pleasure consumption?

The TV50 exhibition catalogue is a fascinating A-Z guide to fifty years of television in Australia.