We describe a prototype scalable and highly available web server, built on an IBM SP-2
system, and analyze its scalability. The system architecture consists of a set of logical front …

It is a typical scenario that many organisations have their business processes specified
independently of their business obligations (which includes contractual obligations to …

We investigate the concept of norm compliance in business process modeling. In particular
we propose an extension of Formal Contract Logic (FCL), a combination of defeasible logic …

Compliance management is important in several industry sectors where there is a high
incidence of regulatory control. It must be ensured that business practices, as reflected in …

Web services provision is the process of assigning particular services to the constituent
tasks of business processes. It describes a promising scenario where services are …

Mobile semantic Web provides a new way of developing context-aware social networking
applications. Social networking applications are changing the way of communication by …

Enterprises are evolving towards advanced forms of cooperation and networking. This kind
of tight cooperation requires the creation of global Business Processes (ie, cross-enterprise …

Business process reengineering (BPR) is a common practice for a continuous improvement
of the organization and the operations of an enterprise. An important technique of BPR is …

The emerging paradigm of service-oriented computing requires novel techniques for various
service-related tasks. Along with automated support for service discovery, selection …

Product lifecycle management (PLM) systems are widely used in the manufacturing industry.
A core feature of such systems is to provide support for versioning of product data. As …