Robert Heinrich is head of the Continuous Quality Engineering research group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is interested in quality modeling, analysis, and evolution of processes and systems, with a focus on industrial application. This was also the topic of his doctoral thesis created at University of Heidelberg.

• Introduction.- Business Process Quality.- Terms and Definitions.- Business Process Quality.- Quality Modeling within Business Process Models.- Aligning Business Process Design and Information System Design.- Foundations and Definitions.- The Order Picking Process and Involved Information System.- Mutual Performance Impact between Business Processes and Information Systems.- Predicting the Mutual Performance Impact between Business Processes and Information Systems.- Extending Palladio by Business Process Simulation Concepts to Enable an Integrated Simulation.- Validation.- Conclusion.- Summary and Future Work.