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The Web services paradigm enables the implementation of business processes by orchestrating one or more existing services. Service selection is the use of techniques to select services for business processes based on non-functional properties such as quality-of-service (QoS) metrics. Although goals are a central concept in business process management, existing service selection approaches are mainly...
The Web services composition defines a process that involves various independent Web services to perform a complex function. This process is described with a standard language (BPEL) and executed by tools supporting this language. This kind of languages describes the behavior of different distributed services together, but it does not support the verification nor the validation of behavioral requirements...
Environmental risky firms require technical advances in order to provide sustainable approaches, but also to generate trust in their progress. We use the theory of reasoned action to propose that users of the corporate Web site build trusting beliefs regarding three characteristics of the firm - ability, integrity, and benevolence - which are relevant factors with regard to understanding their intention...
Next generation networks, as well as the Future Internet, need to provide context-sensitive services that adapt to changing user needs, business goals, and environmental conditions. This article presents a novel autonomic management methodology and associated architecture to make the networks and devices that it manages responsive to context-aware business needs. This approach provides a mapping between...
Engineering systems is a field of scholarship focused on developing fundamental theories and methods to address the challenges of large-scale complex systems in context of their socio-technical environments. The authors describe facets of their recent and ongoing research within the field of engineering systems to develop constructs and methods for architecting enterprises engaged in system-of-systems...
An increasingly large number of digital documents, need to be preserved by organizations. Business documents such as various contracts may be of great business value, may only exit in digital form and may need to be preserved for longer periods of times that may span over decades or even centuries. The preservation process should take care of both the integrity and authenticity of digital documents,...
The Universal Business Language (UBL) is an initiative to develop common business document schemas for interoperability. However, businesses operate in different industry, geopolitical, and regulatory contexts and have different rules and requirements for the information they exchange. So, several trading communities are tailoring UBL schemas to their needs, requiring that these schemas translate...
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