Context: The need to analyze a large volume and variety of data for the purpose of extracting
information has been promoting investments in Big Data, eg, for storage, analysis and, more …

Business Process (BP) model repositories have been proposed to store models of BP and
make them available to their stakeholders for future reuse. One of the challenges facing …

During the last decade, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has been proposed for supporting
the development, maintenance and evolution of software systems. Model Driven …

With the advent of the social Web (Web 2.0) and the massive use of online social networks
(OSNs)(eg Facebook, LinkedIn). OSNs have become new opportunity that provides huge …

Nowadays, it is well recognized that model transformation is at the heart of model driven
engineering approaches (MDE) and represents as a consequence one of the most important …

This article describes an MDE approach for transformation from BPEL specifications to WF-
nets models for verifying behavioral properties on IOWF (Inter-Organizational Workflow) …

High costs for their infrastructure force IT service providers to move from delivering IT
services fully themselves to collaborating with other partners. In this case each party …

Intelligent geographic information systems (IGIS) are currently very popular with end-users
who need to obtain complex information about spatial technical or natural objects. The …

In today's business world, collaborative systems can be realized by implementing Business-
to-Business (B2B) collaborations that entail a process-oriented integration among …

The Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has been proposed to support the development,
maintenance and evolution of software systems. In this context several approaches for …