We formalize and study business process systems that are centered around "business artifacts", or simply "artifacts". This approach focuses on data records, kn...
Alin Deutsch, Richard Hull, Fabio Patrizi, Victor ...
The current trend towards dynamic and highly scalable service provisioning fosters the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms and so called Compute Clouds. The on-demand p...
: We overview three major types of GIS-oriented spatiotemporal databases: (1) point-based, (2) region-based, and (3) constraint-based. We analyze the relationship among these spati...
We present a new approach to the grid technology that is based on federated databases and updatable views. Views are used in two ways: (1) as wrappers of local servers that adopt l...
Hanna Kozankiewicz, Krzysztof Stencel, Kazimierz S...
In pervasive computing environments, service discovery facilitates users to access network services by automating tedious manual configurations. When network services becomes perv...