Despite their potential to reshape business radically, information systems (IS) and information technology (IT) can be key inhibitors of industry transformation. In the automotive...
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BPEL4WS is one of the most important business process modelling languages. One distinct feature of it is the fully programmable fault and compensation handling mechanism, which all...
The workflow models have been essentially operation-centric for many years, ignoring almost completely the data aspects. Recently, a new paradigm of data-centric workflows, call...
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The Semantic Web is a new layer of the Internet that enables semantic representation of the contents of existing web pages. Using common ontologies, human users sketch out the mos...
Christian Fillies, Gay Wood-Albrecht, Frauke Weich...
Massive-scale distributed computing is a challenge at our doorstep. The current exponential growth of data calls for massive-scale capabilities of storage and processing. This is b...