Quality of service (QoS) is a major concern in the design and management of a composite
service. In this paper, a systematic approach is proposed to calculate QoS for composite …

Service-oriented computing promises to create flexible business processes and applications
on demand by dynamically assembling loosely coupled services within and across …

Workflow is used to support and connect business processes (BP) in organizations.
Historically, it is used to define the control of how tasks are coordinated and executed. Its …

Organizations increasingly use business processes and the Business Process Model and
Notation (BPMN) to model them. Taking into account the relevance of Quality of Service …

In this article, we propose a comprehensive approach for Quality of Service (QoS)
calculation in service composition. Differing from the existing work on QoS aggregations that …

Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is considered as the de facto standard for
Web service composition. To analyze the performance of composite service processes …

This paper addresses the problem of computing the aggregate QoS of a composite service
given the QoS of the services participating in the composition. Previous solutions to this …

One can fairly adopt the ideas of Donald E. Knuth to conclude that process modeling is both
a science and an art. Process modeling does have an aesthetic sense. Similar to composing …

Monitoring allows for checking if a system fulfils its requirements at runtime. This is required
for quality assurance purposes. Currently several approaches exist to monitor standard and …

Abstract BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) has become the de-facto business
process modelling language standard. Healthcare processes have been increasingly …