Aside from business processes, the service-oriented approach—currently realized with Web
services and BPEL—should be utilizable for data-intensive applications as well …

This paper defines an algebra for the manipulation of an entity-relationship data base. The
algebra is said to be complete through equivalence with the usual definition of …

In data-centric environments, for example, in the field of scientific computing, the
transmission of large amount of structured data to Web services is required. In service …

The role of data analytics increases in several application domains to cope with the large
amount of captured data. Generally, data analytics are data-intensive processes, whose …

Although Web services technology holds great promise for universal integration, several
obstacles stand in the way of its acceptance. Work is being done to address these obstacles …

Today's scientific challenges such as routes to a sustainable energy future, materials by
design or biological and chemical environmental remediation methods, are complex …

In the context of genome research, the method of gene expression analysis has been used
for several years. Related microarray experiments are conducted all over the world, and …

This paper presents a technology agnostic method for extracting the underlying distinct
patterns of variations in the overall performance of a service operation for changes to …

Service-oriented environments increasingly become the central backbone of a company's
business processes. Thereby, services and business process flows are loosely coupled …

Data clustering is a highly used analysis technique in many application domains. From the
end user's perspective, the wide variety of available algorithms and their technical …