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Efficient and flexible server provisioning is one of the most important criteria in measuring quality of cloud service. In order to save time and mitigate risk, images are set up as templates. And to provision a server, the cloud service provider replicates a selected image and then customize it to fulfill the server request. Therefore image set-up is vital to the efficiency and flexibility of cloud...
Supplier risks jeopardize on-time or complete delivery of supply in a supply chain. Traditionally, a company can merely do an ex-post evaluation of a supplier's performance, and handles emergencies in a reactive rather than a proactive way. We propose an agile process management framework to monitor and manage supply risks. The innovation is two fold - Firstly, a business process is established to...
BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language, it is a kind of specification for process modeling and execution. And many process management products are developed based on or imitates to it, such as IBM Business Process Manager, Websphere Business Modeler, etc. On the other hand, SAP Solution Manager (SSM) provides its own process management tool to create/update/remove SAP process which is...
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems present a holistic view of the business from single information and IT architecture. But ERP systems are comprehensive, huge and complex systems and warrant careful planning and execution not ensure the successful implementation. A business process is set of interrelated activities which have definable inputs result in output that adds value from a custom...
Business Process Management is widely used in enterprises, and modeling and validation of cross enterprise services composition is key challenge to ensure the correctness of cross enterprise collaboration. As the detail of a business process in one enterprise is not suitable for open to other enterprises, this makes the modeling and validation of cross enterprise services composition more complex...
Packaged enterprise systems (ES) have achieved strategic significance in enterprises as their backbone IT systems since late 80s of last century. They provide rich and standard functionality to support business running. However, the concern that packaged enterprise systems are not agile enough has been discussed for decades. This drawback becomes more and more critical because of the more and more...
Solar power, regarded as natural, clean and inexhaustible energy, has nowadays attracted attention of both academic researchers and industrial practitioners. Solar panel is a popular device for family to heat water and to produce electricity to feed home electric devices. Based on the fact that home devices are commonly used in the evening, so it is intuitive and advisable to store electricity produced...
Process models are used widely in business process management related initiatives, such as business process optimization, IT system implementation, etc. In large amount of practices, multiple process models are maintained simultaneously and are required to keep consistent with each other. Synchronization of multiple process modules has been studied as a combination of several two-process-model synchronization...
In Internet of things, lots of instruments and sensors will connect into Internet and can be controlled through Internet to achieve Smart Planet. One of the key challenges is to integrate instruments and sensors into business process. SOA is an ideal infrastructure for business process management and lots of business process definition languages are now available for process orchestration. Instruments...
Public bike system for proximity travel is widely used in urban cities all over the world. Main reasons for launching public bike program is to reduce carbon footprint so as to prevent greenhouse effect and to solve Last-Mile problem in order to make convenient for citizens. However, we may encounter awkward cases in peak hours (from 7:00 to 9:00 and 17:00 to 19:00) that no bike is available at some...
Process model is one of the foundation stones of business process management(BPM). In a lot of industrial practices of BPM, we encounter the requirements to synchronize process models. Although there have already been many research initiatives and mature solutions for two-model synchronization, multi-model synchronization is still a difficult question. Major challenges include how to define multi-model...
In the practice of process-centric systems implementations, business process modeling is becoming more crucial. This paper introduces an approach to automatically generate test suites for the process paths to check the consistency, which is very important, between the business process model and the implementation of Enterprise System. The paper also presents a supporting tool to apply this approach...
Cross-organizational services composition is process-oriented and need collaboration of several systems, and these characteristics are different from normal. Traditional services composition modeling methods cannot meet these new requirements because they don't have mechanisms to model the concurrency operations of several systems. Target on this problem, a cross-organizational services composition...
This paper considers a multi-product and two-stage facility location problem with three layers of nodes: plants with limited production capacities, capacitated DCs to be located, and customers with known demands per product. The goal is to minimize a global cost including DC opening costs, transportation costs, and handling costs. The latter are not simply proportional to the amounts of products traversing...
In this paper, we formulate a stochastic dynamic program for the three-stage supply chain finance problem from the perspective of banks. The objective is to maximize the expected income for the bank under three types of risks, i.e., supplier's credit risk, buyer's credit risk and inventory-in-transit risk. We contribute to the literature with an innovative mathematical model of supply chain finance...
As the rapid development of Internet of things, a large number of devices, instruments and sensors will connect and collaborate to achieve Smart Planet. One of the key challenges is to integrate devices into business process. SOA is an ideal infrastructure for business process management as applications are invoked using standard interfaces and protocols. It's convenient to use device-oriented web...
In the environment of Internet of things, devices are encapsulated as web services and device operations are encapsulated as web service methods. These web services are stateful because devices can't be controlled by more than one client at the same time. Traditional web service composition methods are lack of considering state of the web services and have great challenge under Internet of things...
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects physical world to the cyber-world, which may impose predicable and unpredictable changes to enterprise business models and our everyday life. In this paper, we propose a model to describe the impact of IoT on the material, information and capital flow as well as carbon footprint through the supply chain, and further support the model with possible business scenarios...
To effectively manage a supply chain, we should no longer focus on physical flow and informational flow only, but also the financial flow. The financial supply chain management (FSCM) extracts capital tied to the raw material, work-in-process, inventory in transit, and accounts receivable (accounts payable). In this paper we review a set of supply chain financing solutions tailored by the financial...
In process-centric enterprise system implementation, a system process model is used by IT team to conduct system development and configuration plans. On the other hand, Business process model is used by business team for business process analyzing and redesigning. The fundamental target of enterprise system is to meet business requirements, therefore it's critical to make the system process model...
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