A data-centric approach to business process and workflow modeling has been emerging
over the past several years. This short paper presents a structured framework for a class of …

Web services technologies enable flexible and dynamic interoperation of autonomous
software and information systems. A central challenge is the development of modeling …

Service-oriented computing, an emerging paradigm for architecting and implementing
business collaborations within and across organizational boundaries, is currently of interest …

This paper studies the dynamic web service selection problem in a failure-prone
environment, which aims to determine a subset of Web services to be invoked at run-time so …

Web services technologies are advancing fast and being extensively deployed in many di?
erent application environments. Web services based on the eXt-sible Markup Language …

In the next few decades, it is expected that web services will proliferate, many web services
will offer the same services, and the clients will demand more value added and informative …

Many novel application scenarios and architectures in business process management or
service composition are characterized by a distribution of activities and resources, and by …

This paper describes the foundations of smart business process management and serves as
an editorial to the corresponding special issue. To this end, we introduce a framework that …

The extensive adoption of Web service-based applications in dynamic business scenarios,
such as on-demand computing or highly reconfigurable virtual enterprises, advocates for …

The services on the Internet are evolving. The various properties of the services, such as
their prices and performance, keep changing. To ensure user satisfaction in the long run, it is …