Cloud Computing is gaining more and more importance in the Information Technologies (IT)
scope. One of the major assets of this paradigm is its economic model based on pay-as-you …

Business Process Management is a matter of great importance in different industries and
application areas. In many cases, it involves the execution of resource-intensive tasks in …

The few recent years have witnessed the appearance of a new kind of self-adaptive systems
called cloud based-elastic systems. These systems are particularly appealing for their ability …

Cloud Computing is an emerging paradigm involving different kinds of Information
Technologies (IT) services. One of the major advantages of this paradigm resides on its pay …

A self-adaptive resource provisioning on demand is a critical factor in cloud computing. The
selection of accurate amount of resources at run time is not easy due to dynamic nature of …

In the recent years, growing attention has been paid to the concept of Cloud Computing as a
new computing paradigm for executing and handling operations/processes in an efficient …

In this paper, we present a real time interactive system for running flexible workflow
applications. This system facilitates the execution of these applications in terms of time …

In recent years, cloud computing (Mell et al., 2011) has emerged as a new and promising
concept in the IT evolution; it has increasingly attracted attention from both industry and …

In this paper, we present a reactive system for running flexible business process. We define
two flexibility patterns based on BPMN (Business Process Model Notation) that deals with …

Elasticity is actually one major and important asset for cloud-based systems. This property
grants this kind of systems the ability to dynamically adjust their resources allocation by …