Orchestration is currently presented as a way to coordinate web services in order to define business processes. In this paper we revisit these concepts, showing the current limita...
Abstract: Contemporary business applications often employ a process layer in order to coordinate automated activities. One option to build such a layer is to use a workflow manage...
Stefan Kleine Stegemann, Burkhardt Funk, Thomas Sl...
—Protecting and securing sensitive information are critical challenges for businesses. Deliberate and intended actions such as malicious exploitation, theft or destruction of dat...
While standardization efforts for XML query languages have been progressing, researchers and users increasingly focus on the database technology that has to deliver on the new cha...
Albrecht Schmidt 0002, Florian Waas, Martin L. Ker...
A voting protocol for decision-making in virtual organizations is presented. In an agent-based virtual organization the functions of formation, management and dissolution of the o...
Jeremy V. Pitt, Lloyd Kamara, Marek J. Sergot, Ale...