In many recent object recognition systems, feature extraction stages are generally
composed of a filter bank, a non-linear transformation, and some sort of feature pooling …

Business Process flexibility supports organizations in changing their everyday work activities
to remain competitive. Since much research has been done on this topic a better awareness …

BPEL is the de facto standard for business process modeling in today's enterprises and is a
promising candidate for the integration of business and Grid applications. Current BPEL …

In principle, connected sensors allow effortless long-term self-monitoring of health and
wellness that can help maintain health and quality of life. However, data collected in the …

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Abstract Service-based applications are considered a promising technology since they are
able to offer complex and flexible functionalities in widely distributed environments by …

Service-based business processes are typically used by organizations to achieve business
goals through the coordinated execution of a set of activities implemented as services and …

Templates are provided and used in an Information Technol ogy (IT) environment. A
template represents a pattern of resources and resource relationships of the IT environment …

Business processes can use Internet of Things (IoT) information to monitor context data in
real-time and to respond to changes in their values in a timely fashion. For this matter …

We propose a new approach to dynamic adaptation, based on the combination of
adaptation hooks provided by the adaptable application specifying where adaptation can …