Abstract Information integration, application integration and component-based software
development have been among the most important research areas for decades. The last …

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) has emerged as de-facto standard for
business processes implementation. This language is designed to be extensible for …

Abstract The Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style has seen substantial
growth and adoption for the design of modern Resource-Oriented Architectures. However …

Traditionally, workflow management systems aim at alleviating people's burden of
coordinating repetitive business procedures, ie, they coordinate people. Web service …

Workflow management systems focus on the coordination of people and work items, service
composition approaches on the coordination of service invocations, and, recently, web …

Facilitating compliance management, that is, assisting a company's management in
conforming to laws, regulations, standards, contracts, and policies, is a hot but non-trivial …

In today's companies, business processes are increasingly supported by IT systems. They
can be implemented as service orchestrations, for example in WS-BPEL, running on …

A mashup is an application that combines data and functionalities from more than one
source. It groups disparate data in ways that enable users to do new things or accomplish …

Mashups, ie, web applications that are developed by integrating data, application logic, and
user interfaces sourced from the Web, represent one of the innovations that characterize …

Outsourcing parts of a company's processes becomes more and more important in a
globalized, distributed economy. While architectural styles and technologies such as service …