Service level agreements (SLAs) impose many nonfunctional requirements on services. Business analysts specify and check these requirements in business process models using tools s...
Hua Xiao, Brian Chan, Ying Zou, Jay W. Benayon, Bi...
Over the last few years several process-based web service composition languages have emerged, such as BPEL4WS and BPML. These languages define the composition on the basis of a pr...
Current technologies aimed at supporting processes – whether it is a business process or a learning process – are usually based on using a dedicated set of metadata to describ...
Abstract. The modeling, design, and implementation of inter-organizational systems (IOS) is a challenging new problem. In contrast to previous systems, where components have clearl...
In the past few years we have seen a huge industrial investment on the development of content delivery networks (CDNs) which provide a large number of caches and storage devices a...
Wei-Ying Ma, Xing Xie, Chun Yuan, Yu Chen, Zheng Z...