Cloud computing with its three key facets (ie, Infrastructure-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-
Service, and Software-as-a-Service) and its inherent advantages (eg, elasticity and …

The domains of complex event processing (CEP) and business process management (BPM)
have different origins but for many aspects draw on similar concepts. While specific …

The migration of existing applications to the Cloud requires adapting them to a new
computing paradigm. Existing works have focused on migrating the whole application stack …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging paradigm where practically every
(physical and virtual) thing will be interconnected through innovative distributed services …

Many novel application scenarios and architectures in business process management or
service composition are characterized by a distribution of activities and resources, and by …

Choreographies allow business and service architects to specify with a global perspective
the requirements of applications built over distributed and interacting software entities. While …

To ensure their competitive advantage an increasing number of organizations adopt
business process management for design, automation, and analysis of their business …

Interacting services play a key role to realize business process integration among different
business partners by means of electronic message exchange. In order to provide seamless …

Choreographies are contracts specifying from a global point of view the legal interactions
that must take place among a set of services. Such a contract may serve as a reference in …

The term “process fragment” is recently gaining momentum in business process
management research. We understand a process fragment as a connected and reusable …