Despite their wide range of applications, workflow systems still suffer from lack of an agreed
and standard modelling technique. It is a motivating research area and some researchers …

The prevailing practice of design for mass customization manifests itself through a configure-
to-order paradigm, which means to satisfy explicit customer needs (CNs) and built upon …

The Internet is going through several major changes. It has become a vehicle of Web
services rather than just a repository of information. Many organizations are putting their …

Web applications support many of our daily activities, but they often have security problems,
and their accessibility makes them easy to exploit. In cross-site scripting (XSS), an attacker …

In recent years, workflow management systems (WFMSs) have gained popularity in both
research and commercial sectors. WFMSs are used to coordinate and streamline business …

Inheritance is one of the key issues of object-orientation. The inheritance mechanism allows
for the definition of a subclass which inherits the features of a specific superclass. When …

Workflow management technology promises a flexible solution for business-process support
facilitating the easy creation of new business processes and modification of existing …

This paper describes in an informal way the Public-To-Private (P2P) approach to
interorganizational workflows, which is based on a notion of inheritance. The approach …

Current workflow management systems still lack support for dynamic and automatic
workflow adaptations. However, this functionality is a major requirement for next–generation …

The Internet's World Wide Web has become the prime driver of contemporary Electronic
commerce (E-commerce). Although the emphasis has moved from Electronic Data …