One key perspective when dealing with business process management is time. All business
experts agree upon the fact that time is a key resource for processes within organisations …

Composition of Web services is much studied to support business-to-business and
enterprise application integration in e-commerce. Current Web service composition …

In this paper, an underwater image enhancement method using quaternions is presented.
This work aims to improve color rendition and contrast of the objects, as if the scene has …

Current approaches to service composition range from industrial standards (like BPEL and
OWL-S) to formal methods (like Petri nets and process algebras). In this paper, we survey a …

The paradigm of service-oriented computing revolutionized the field of software engineering.
According to this paradigm, new systems are composed of existing stand-alone services to …

In this paper we address the problem of qualitative and quantitative analysis of timing
aspects of Web service compositions defined as a set of BPEL4WS processes. We introduce …

Web services are the main pillar of the Service Oriented Computing (SOC) paradigm which
enables the application integration within and across business organizations. One of the …

The paper reports on a project in the area of simulation based decision support (SBDS) at
the operational level of the manufacturing system. The purpose of the project was to explore …

Web service composition is a new way for implementing business processes. In particular, a
choreography supports modeling and enactment of interorganizational business processes …

Testing conceptually consists of three activities: test case generation, test case execution
and verdict assignment. Using online testing, test cases are generated and simultaneously …