Purpose–The paper aims to determine and assess the cost positions that mostly impact the
company total cost efficiency in supply chain management under theoretical and empirical …

This book addresses the challenge of user-level workflow design with a particular focus on
the bioinformatics application domain. Towards this aim, it follows a novel, constraint-driven …

The jABC is a framework for process modelling and execution according to the XMDD
(eXtreme model-driven design) paradigm, which advocates the rigorous use of user-level …

In this paper we present the design and evaluate the performance of an autonomic workflow
execution engine. Although there exist many distributed workflow engines, in practice, it …

Software development nowadays involves several levels of abstraction: starting from the
programming of single objects, to their combination into components, to their publication as …

Building Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) applications today is a complex, repetitive, and
error-prone endeavor, as IaaS does not provide abstractions on top of virtual machines. This …

An increasing amount of Web services are being implemented using process management
tools and languages (BPML, BPEL, etc.). The main advantage of processes is that designers …

Modern society increasingly relies on mobile devices. This explains the growing demand for
high quality software for such devices. To improve the efficiency of the development life …

Software plays an increasingly important role in our daily lives. The development of this
software is complex and hard to understand by non-professionals. Fundamental knowledge …

Abstract Service oriented computing (SOC) has brought a simplification in the way
distributed applications can be built. Mainstream approaches, however, failed to support …