Abstract. When assessing the usability of BPM technologies enterprises have to rely on vendor promises or qualitative data rather than on empirical or experimental research. To add...
From personal software to advanced systems, caching mechanisms have steadfastly been a ubiquitous means for reducing workloads. It is no surprise, then, that under the grid and clu...
Workflow management systems (WFMSs) that are geared for the orchestration of enterprise-wide or even "virtual-enterprise"-style business processes across multiple organi...
Business and scientific workflow management systems (WfMS) offer different features to their users because they are developed for different application areas with different require...
MapReduce provides a parallel and scalable programming model for data-intensive business and scientific applications. MapReduce and its de facto open source project, called Hadoop...