CS565 - Business Process Management Systems

Course Books

Internet-Based Workflow Management: Towards a Semantic Web, Dan C. Marinescu, Wiley-Interscience Publication, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,New York / Chichester / Weinheim / Brisbane / Singapore / Toronto,ISBN: 0-471-43962-2, 2002.
Workflow Management: Models, Methods, and Systems and Troubleshooting Techniques
Wil van der Aalst Kees van Hee, MIT Press, 2002.
Business Processes - Modeling and Analysis for Re-engineering and Improvement.
M. Ould, John Wiley & Sons, Beverly Hills (1995)
Communicating and Mobile Systems: the pi calculus,Milner, Robin (1999)
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Papers

Business Process and Workflow Management Systems
- Overviews, Surveys, Tutorials
  1. An overview of Workflow Management. From Process Modeling to Workflow Automatation Infrastracture, D. Georgakopoulos, M.Hornick and A. Sheth, Distributed and Parallel Databases Vol. 3,April 1995.
  2. Tutorial:State of the Art in Workflow Management System Products and Research , C. Mohan, Proc. NATO Advanced Study Institute on Workflow Management Systems and Interoperability 1997
  3. Advanced Workflow Patterns,W.M.P. van der Aalst, A.H.M. ter Hofstede, B. Kiepuszewski, and A.P. Barros. In O. Etzion and P. Scheuermann, editors, 7th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2000), volume 1901 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 18-29. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000. (see also...)
- Formal Models
  1. UML Activity Diagrams as a Workflow Specification Language, M. Dumas and A. ter Hofstede. In Proc. of the International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language (UML). Toronto, Canada, October 2001. Springer Verlag.
  2. A Formal Semantics for UML Activity Diagrams - Formalising Work ow Models, Rik Eshuis and Roel Wieringa,CTIT Technical Report 01-04. University of Twente. February 2001.
  3. Workflow Patterns: On the Expressive Power of (Petri-net-based) Workflow Languages, W.M.P. van der Aalst and A.H.M. ter Hofstede, In K. Jensen, editor, Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on the Practical Use of Coloured Petri Nets and CPN Tools (CPN 2002), volume 560 of DAIMI, pages 1�20, Aarhus, Denmark, August 2002. University of Aarhus.
  4. On the formal semantics of statecharts D. Harel,A. Pnueli, J.P. Schmidt and R. Sherman. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, pages 54-64, Ithaca, New York, June 1987.
  5. Statecharts:A Visual Formalism for Complex Systems , D. Harel, Science of Computer Programming vol.8 no.3 1987
  6. A Comparison between Statecharts and State Transition Assertions ,Nancy Day, 5th International Workshop on Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications, Leuven, Belgium, September, 1992.
  7. Expressiveness and Suitability of Languages for Control Flow Modelling in Workflows , B. Kiepuszewski, PhD thesis, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 2002.
  8. Formal Verification of Workflow Schemas, C. Karamanolis, D. Giannakopoulou, J. Magee, S. M. Wheater, Submitted for publication to the 12th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE 2000), October 1999
  9. A Comparison of Workflow Metamodels, Yu Lei and Munindar P. Singh, Proceedings of the ER'97 Workshop on Behavioral Models and Design Transformations: Issues and Opportunities in Conceptual Modeling, 6 - 7 November 1997, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
  10. A Formal Framework for Business Process Modelling and DesignManolis Koubarakis and Dimitris Plexousakis, Information Systems Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1-22, 2001
  11. Reasoning about Actions for e-Service Composition ,Daniela Berardi, Diego Calvanese, Giuseppe De Giacomo, Massimo Mecella, Technical Report 01-2003, Roma, Italy, 2003
  12. Automatic Control of Workflow Processes Using ECA Rules Joonsoo Bae, Hyerim Bae, Suk-Ho Kang, and Yeongho Kim, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 16, No . 8, August 2004
- Distribution
  1. A Highly Decentralized Architecture for Large-scale Workflow Enactment, Silva Filho R. S., Wainer J., Madeir a E. R. M.- Submitted to the International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems (IJCIS).
  2. Decentralized and Flexible Workflow Enactment Based on Task Coordination Agents , Gregor Joeris, AGENT-ORIENTED INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AOIS-2000)
  3. A Formal Foundation for Distributed Workflow Execution Based on State Charts, Dirk Wodtke, Gerhard Weikum ICDT 1997: 230-246
- Adaptive
  1. A Unified Framework for Exceptions in Workflow and Process Models - An Approach on Persistent Objects , Alex Borgida, Takahiro Murata, Proc. WACC 1999
- Transactions
  1. Concurrency Control and Recovery in Transactional Process Management , Heiko Schuldt, Gustavo Alonso, Hans-Jorg Schek. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS'1999), pages 316-326, Philadelphia, PA, USA, May/June 1999. ACM Press.
  2. Atomicity and Isolation for Transactional Processes Heiko Schuldt, Gustavo Alonso, Catriel Beeri, Hans-Jorg Schek. In ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS). 27(1), pages 63-116, March 2002. ACM Press.
  3. Transactional Workflows Gottfried Vossen, Proc. DOOD 1997
- Security
  1. A Multilevel Secure Workflow Management System, M. Kang, J. Froscher, A. Sheth, K. Kochut and J. Miller, Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAiSE'99), Heidelberg, Germany, June 1999.
  2. A Chinese Wall Security Model for Decentralized Workflow Systems, Vijay Alturi, Soon Ae Chun, & Pietro Mazzoleni, In the proceedings of Eighth ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS-8) Philadelphia, November 5-8, 2001 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Interoperability (Cross/Inter Organizational Workflows)
  1. Managing Heterogeneous Multi-System Tasks to Support Enterprise-Wide Operations, N. Krishnakumar, A. Sheth, Distributed and Parallel Databases vol. 3 1995
  2. XRL/Flower: Supporting Inter-Organizational Workflows using XML/Petri-net Technology, A. Hirnschall, H.M.W. Verbeek, and W.M.P. Van der Aalst, CaiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES2002, Toronto, Canada.
  3. Workflow View Driven Cross-Organizational Interoperability in a Web-Service Environment, D.K.W Chiu, S.C. Cheung, K. Karlapalem, Q. Li, S. Till, CaiSE 2002 International Workshop WES 2002, Toronto, Canada.
  4. Workflow Mediation using VorteXML, by Vassilis Christophides, Richard Hull, Akhil Kumar and Jerome Simeon. Full version appears in IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, March, 2001
  5. Querying and Splicing of XML Workflows , Vassilis Christophides, Richard Hull, and Akhil Kumar. Appears in Proc. of Intl. Conf. on Cooperating Information Systems (CoopIS) Trento, Italy, September, 2001.
  6. A Highly Decentralized Architecture for Large Scale Workflow Enactment ,
- Applications
  1. Software Engineering Process Model- A Case Study, Gary J. Nutt, Conference on Organizational Computing Systems, ACM, August 1995
  2. Workflow-based applications, IBM System Journal vol 36 no.1 1996
  3. Scientific Workflow Management by Database Management, A. Ailamaki and et al, Statistical and Scientific Database Management 1998
  4. Workflow Management with Service Quality Guarantees, Michael Gillmann, Wolfgang Wonner, Gerhard Weikum, SIGMOD 2002
  5. Webwork:Meteor2's Web-Based Workflow Management System , John A. Miller, Devavand Palaniswami, Amit P. Sheth, Krys J. Kochut and Harvinder Singh, Journal of Intellingent Information Systems, 1997
  6. WASA: A Workflow-Based Architecture to Support Scientific Database Applications, C.B. Medeiros, Gottfried Vossen, Proc. 6th DEXA Conference, 1995
Web Services/e-services
- General
  1. N. Leavitt, "Are Web Services Finally Ready to Deliver?", IEEE Computer, 37 (11), pp. 14-18, Nov. 2004
  2. K. Birman, "Like it or Not, Web Services are Distributed Objects", Communications of the ACM, 47 (12), pp. 60-62, Dec. 2004
  3. K. Birman, "Can Web Services Scale Up?", IEEE Computer, 38 (10), pp. 107-110, October 2005
- Service Interoperability Standards
  1. P. Green, M. Rosemann, M. Indulska, "Ontological Evaluation of Enterprise Systems Interoperability using ebXML", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 17(5), pp. 713-725, 2005
- Architecture and Frameworks
  1. Dynamic e-Business. Trends in Web Services,C. Mohan. Invited talk, 3rd VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services(TES'02), Hong Kong, China, August 2002
  2. Web Services:Why and How , F. Cubera, William A. Nagy, Sanjiva Weerawarana, OOWS2001, Tampa Bay.
  3. Serviceflow Beyond Workflow? Concepts and Architectures for Supporting Inter-Organizational Service Process, I. Wetzel, R. Klischewski, Proceedings 14th CAiSE 2002.
  4. The Web Service Modeling Framework , D. Fensel, C. Bussler, Y. Ding, and B. Omelayenko, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 1(2), 2002
  5. Service-Oriented Computing:"The S.O.C. Manifesto", Mike Papazoglou, Vincenzo d' Andrea, Dimitris Plexousakis, Paul Grefen, Jian Yang, Massimo Mecella, Pierluigi Plebani
  6. The world of e-business:web-services,workflows, and business transactions, P. Papazoglou,CaiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES2002, Toronto, Canada.
  7. IBM'a AUTONOMIC COMPUTING MANIFESTO, IEEE Computer, Jan 2003, page 41.
  8. An Overview of Standards and Related Technology in Web Services , Aphrodite Tsalgatidou Thomi Pilioura, Distributed and Parallel Databases, 12, 135 162, 2002 c 2002 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  9. IBM Web Services Conceptual Architecture,
  10. IBM Web Services Development Concepts,
  11. DAML-S: Semantic Markup For Web Services , A. Ankolekar, M. Burstein, J. Hobbs, O. Lassila, D. Martin, S. McIlraith, S. Narayanan, M. Paolucci, T. Payne, K. Sycara, H. Zeng, in Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Working Symposium (SWWS), July 30-August 1, 2001.
  12. Web Services: Beyond Component-based Computing, M. Stal, Communications of the ACM, 45(10),pp. 71-76, October 2002
  13. Enterprise Services, P. Fremantle et al., Communications of the ACM, 45(10),pp. 77-82, October 2002
- Languages
  1. Don't go with the flow. Web services composition standards exposed, W.M.P Van Der Aalst. To appear. IEEE Intelligent Systrems, Jan/Feb 2003.
  2. Pattern Based Analysis of BPEL4WS , Petia Wohed, Wil.M.P van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede
  3. Pattern Based Analysis of BPML-WSCI , Petia Wohed, Wil.M.P van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Arthur H.M. ter Hofstede
  4. Pattern-Based Analysis of EAI Languages - The Case of the Business Modelling Language, P. Wohed, M. Dumas, A. ter Hofstede, E. Perjons. In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS). Angers, France, April 2003. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  5. Workflow: A Language for Composing Web Services , Giacomo Piccinelli, Scott Lane Williams, 16th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP) Malaga, Spain June 11, 2002.
- Models
  1. Conversations + Interfaces = Business Logic, Harumi Kuno, Mike Lemon, Alan Karp, and Dorothea Beringer,TES2001
  2. Concurrent Execution Semantics for DAML-S with Subtypes, Anupriya Ankolekar, Frank Huch, Katia Sycara,The First International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC), Sardinia (Italy), June, 2002.
  3. Interface Automata , Luca de Alfaro,Thomas A. Henzinger, Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), ACM Press, 2001, pp. 109-120
  4. E-Services:A Look Behind the Curtain, Richard Hull, Michael Benedikt, Vassilis Christophides, Jianwen Su, Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), June 2003
- Description and Discovery
  1. Importing the Semantic Web in UDDI , Massimo Paolucci, Takahiro Kawamura, Terry R. Payne, and Katia Sycara, CaiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES2002, Toronto, Canada.
  2. Discovering Services: Towards High-Precision Service Retrieval , Abraham Bernstein and Mark Klein, CaiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES2002, Toronto, Canada.
  3. Searching for Services on the Semantic Web Using Process Ontologies , Klein M. and Bernstein A. In the Emerging Semantic Web - Selected papers from the first Semantic-Web Working Symposium, Isabel C., Decker S., Euzenat J., and McGuinness D. Eds. Amsterdam: IOS press, pp. 159-172
  4. Towards a Semantic Framework for Service Description,M. Dumas, J. O'Sullivan, M. Heravizadeh, A. ter Hofstede, and D. Edmond. In Proc. of the IFIP Conference on Database Semantics. Hong Kong, April 2001. Kluwer Academic Publishers (published in November 2002).
  5. The Web Service Discovery Architecture, Wolfgang Hoschek , Proc. of the Int'l. IEEE/ACM Supercomputing Conference (SC 2002), Baltimore, USA, November 2002. IEEE Computer Society Press
  6. Me-Services: A Framework for Secure & Personalized Discovery, Composition and Management of Services in Pervasive Environments , Anupam Joshi, Timothy Finin, and Yelena Yesha, CaiSE 2002, International Confarence WES 2002, Toronto, Canada.
  7. An ebXML Infrastructure Implementation through UDDI Registries and RosettaNet PIPs , Dogac, A., Tambag, Y., Pembecioglu, P., Pektas, S., Laleci, G. B., Kurt, G., Toprak, S., Kabak, Y., ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, June 2002.
  8. Service Description:A Survey of the general nature of services Justin O'Sullivan, David Edmond and Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede
  9. Dynamic Discovery of e-Services: A description logics based approach Mohand-Said Hacid, Alain Leger, Christophe Rey, Farouk Toumani.
  10. Preliminary Report of Public Experiment of Semantic Service Matchmaker with UDDI Business Registry T. Kawamura, J. De Blasio, T. Hasegawa, M. Paolucci, and K. Sycara. In Proc. Of First International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC2003), Trento, Italy, December 15th-18th 2003.
  11. Semantic Web Services: description requirements and current technologies Ruben Lara, Holger Lausen, Sinuhe Arroyo, Jos de Bruijn, Dieter Fensel. International Workshop on Electronic Commerce, Agents, and Semantic Web Services, In conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC 2003), Pittsburgh, PA, September 30, 2003.
  12. Metadata and Semantics for Web Services and Processes Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller, Rohit Aggarwal, Preeda Rajasekaran. Book Chapter, Datenbanken und Informationssysteme, Festschrift zum 60. Geburtstag von Gunter Schlageter, Publication Hagen, October 2003-09-26.
  13. Adding Semantics to Web Services Standards Kaarthik Sivashanmugam, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, John A. Miller. ICWS 2003: 395-401.
  14. A Peer to Peer Approach to Web Service Discovery C. Schmidt and M. Parashar. Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Web Service (ICWS '03), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Computer Science Research, Education and Applications (CSREA).
  15. Discovering Web Services Using Behavioural Constraints and Ontology Natenapa Sriharee, Twittie Senivongse. DAIS 2003: 248-259.
  16. Capabilities - Describing what Services Can Do Phillipa Oaks, Arthur H. M. ter Hofstede, David Edmond. ICSOC 2003: 1-16.
  17. An experience report on using DAML-S In: Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference Workshop on E-Services and the Semantic Web (ESSW 03), Budapest (2003).
- Composition and Automation
  1. Process Aggregation Using Web Services, Moe Thandar Tut and David Edmond, CaiSE 2002, International Workshop WES 2002, Toronto, Canada.
  2. Conversation Support for Business Process Integration , James E. Hanson, Prabir Nandi, Santhosh Kurmaran, sixth intarnational Enterprise Distributed Object Computing conference (EDOC'02) , Laussane, Switzerland.
  3. Value-Added Web Services Composition Using Automatic Program Synthesis, Mihhail Matskin and Jinghai Rao, CaiSE 2002, International Conference WES 2002, Toronto, Canada.
  4. Adaptive and Dynamic Service Composition in eFlow, Casati F., Ilnicki S., Jin L., Krishnamoorthy V. and Shan M. In Proc. of the International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Stockholm, Sweden, 2002.
  5. On the Management of Compositions of Web Services, Tosic V., Pagurek B., Esfandiari B. and Patel K. OOWS2001.
  6. Web Components: A Substrate for Web Service Reuse and Composition,Yang J. and Papazoglou M. P. 2002. In the Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Toronto, Canada.
  7. Patterns for e-Services Composition,M.-C. Fauvet, M. Dumas, F. Rabhi, B. Benatallah. In Proceedings of the 3rd Asia-Pacific Conference on Pattern Languages of Programs (KoalaPLoP), Melbourne, Australia, May 2002. Australian Computer Society.
  8. Beyond Discrete E-services: Composing Session-oriented Services in Telecommunications ,Vassilis Christophides, Richard Hull, Gregory Karvounarakis, Akhil Kumar, Geliang Tong, and Ming Xiong. Appears in Proc. of Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (TES), Rome, Italy, September, 2001.
  9. Declarative Composition and Peer-to-Peer Provisioning of Dynamic Web Services , Boualem Benatallah, Marlon Dumas, Quan Z. Sheng , Anne H.H. Ngu IEEE Internatinal Conference on Data Engineering,ICDE02 IEEE Society, San Jose, California, USA, Feb, 2002
  10. Modeling E-service Orchestration through Petri Nets , Massimo Mecella,Francesco Parisi Presicce,and Barbara Pernici,TES 2002
  11. Web Components: A Substrate for Web Service Reuse and Composition, Jian Yang and Mike.P.Papazoglou,14th International Conference, CAiSE 2002 Toronto, Canada, May 27-31, 2002.
  12. Tackling the Challenges of Service Composition in E-Marketplaces, Jian Yang, Mike P. Papazoglou, Willem-Jan Van den Heuvel, Tilburg University,12th International Workshop on Research Issues in Data Engineering, Engineering E-Commerce/E-Business Systems (RIDE'02)
  13. Designing Components for E-Services ,Barbara Pernici,Massimo Mecella, Proceedings of the VLDB Workshop on Technologies for e-Services (VLDB-TES 2000), Cairo, Egypt, 2000
  14. Flexible and Reliable Web Service Execution, Markus Keidl, Stefan Seltzsam, Alfons Kemper, Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Entwicklung von Anwendungen auf der Basis der XML Web-Service Technologie (2002), pages 17-30, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany, Juli 2002 (ISSN: 1432-3613)
  15. Overview of Some Patterns for Architecting and Managing Composite Web Services , B. Benatallah, M. Dumas, M.C. Fauvet, F.A. Rabhi, Quan Z. Sheng, ACM SIGecom Exchanges 3(3) 9-18, August 2002. ACM Press
  16. The Use of Patterns in Service Composition , Moe Thandar Tut and David Edmond, Workshop on Web Services, e-Business, and the Semantic Web (WES), Toronto, Ontario, Canada 27-28 May, 2002.
  17. A Repository of Workflow Components for Cooperative e-Applications, Massimo Mecella, Barbara Pernici, Monica Rossi, Andrea Testi, Proceedings of the 1st IFIP TC8 Working Conference on E-Commerce/E-Business (Salzburg, Austria, 2001), BICE Press, pp. 73-92
  18. Compatibility of e -Services in a Cooperative Multi-platform Environment, Massimo Mecella, Barbara Pernici, Paolo Craca, TES2001
  19. Semantic e-Workflow Composition Jorge Cardoso and Amit Sheth, Technical Report, Journal of Intelligent Information Systems (JIIS), July 2002.
  20. Conversation Specification: A New Approach to Design and Analysis of E-Service Composition Tevfik Bultan,Xiang Fu,Richard Hull,Jianwen Su,In the Proceedings of the Twelfth International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2003).
  21. Towards Automatic Web Service Composition using AI Planning Techniques, Joachim Peer.
  22. Z. Maamar, S. Mostefaoui, H. Yahyaoui, "Toward an Agent-based and Context-Oriented Approach for Web Service Composition", IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 17(5), pp. 686-697, 2005
- Monitoring and Performance Analysis
  1. Collecting and Querying Distributed Traces of Composite Service Executions, Marie-Christine Fauvet, Marlon Dumas, Boualem Benatallah, CoopIS/DOA/ODBASE 2002.
  2. Peer-to-Peer Traced Execution of Composite Services, M.C. Fauvet, M. Dumas, B. Benatallah, and H.Y. Paik. Proc. of the VLDB Workshop on Technologies of E-Services (VLDB-TES), Rome, Italy, September 2001. Springer Verlag.
  3. Composition, Performance Analysis and Simulation of Web Services, Senthilanand Chandrasekaran, John A. Miller, Gregory Silver, I. Budak Arpinar and Amit P. Sheth, Distributed and Parallel Database (DPDB), Vol., No. (September 2002)
- Contracts and Quality Of Service
  1. Web Services Offerings Language , Vladimir Tosic, Kruti Patel, Bernard Pagurek, CaiSE 2002, International Confarence WES 2002, Toronto, Canada.
  2. On t-,m-,p-,e-Contracting , Paul Grefen, Samuil Angelov, CaiSE 2002 Intenational Workshop WES2002, Toronto, Canada.
  3. A Three Layer Framework for Cross-Organizational E-Contract Enactment , S.C. Cheung, D.K.W. Chiu, S. Till, CaiSE 2002 Intarnational Conference WES2002, Toronto, Canada.
  4. Data Quality in e-Business Applications , Monica Scannapieco, Valeria Mirabella, Massimo Mecella, Carlo Batini, CAiSE 2002 International Workshop, WES 2002, Toronto, Canada.
  5. On Requirements for Ontologies in Management of Web Services , Vladimir Tosic, Babak Esfandiari, Bernard Pagurek, and Kruti Patel, CaiSE 2002 Intarnational Conference WES2002, Toronto, Canada.
  6. Modeling Quality of Service for Workflows and Web Service Processes,Cardoso J., Miller J., Sheth A. and Arnold J. 2002. VLDB Journal, The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases ( VLDBJ), Vol., No. (May 2002)
  7. QoS for Service-Oriented Middleware, Sheth A., Cardoso J., Miller J., Kochut K. and Kang M. 2002. In Proc. of the 2002 Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI'02), Orlando, Florida,July 2002
  8. Workflow Quality of Service, Cardoso, J., A. Sheth and J. Miller (2002). International Conference on Enterprise Integration and Modeling Technology and International Enterprise Modeling Conference (ICEIMT/IEMC), Valencia, Spain, Kluwer Publishers.
  9. What s in a Service? Towards Accurate Description of Non-Functional Service Properties, Justin O Sullivan and David Edmond AND Arthur Ter Hofstede,Distributed and Parallel Databases, 12, 117 133, 2002
  10. QoS Management of Web Services Based on User Expectations, Deora, V., Shao, J., Alex Gray, W., and Fiddian, N. J. 2003. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC� 03). LNCS 2910, Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp 104-113
  11. Quality-of-service specification in Distributed object systems, Frolund, S. and Koistinen, J. 1998. Distributed System Engineering 5: 179-202
  12. QoS for Web Services: Requirements and Possible Approaches, Jeon, J-H., Jeong, S-H., and Park, S-W. 2004. Expert Group Meeting on Next Generation Web. 4-6 August 2004, Hyderabad, India
  13. Analysis on Service Level Agreement of Web Services, Jin, L., Machirahu, V., and Sahai, A. 2002. Technical Report HPL-2002-180, Software Technology Laboratories, HP Laboratories, June 2002
  14. The WSLA framework: Specifying and monitoring service level agreements for web services, Keller, A., and Ludwig, H. 2002. Technical Report RC22456 (W0205-171), IBM International Business Machines Corporation
  15. Aimq: a methodology for information quality assessment, Lee, Y.W., Strong, D.M., Khan, B.K., and Wang, R.Y. 2002. Information and Management 40 (2002) 133-146
  16. QoS Computation and Policing in Dynamic Web Service Selection, Liu, Y., Ngu, A. H. H, and Zeng, L. 2004. In Proceedings of the World Wide Web (WWW) Conference 2004. May 17-22, 2004, New York, USA
  17. Understanding quality of service for Web services. Mani A. and Nagarajan (2002). IBM developerWorks. January 2002
  18. A quality-aware approach to web services procurement, Martin-Diaz, O., Ruiz-Cortes, A., Benavides, D., Duran, A., and Toro, M. 2003. In Fourth International VLDB Workshop Technologies for E-Services, Springer LNCS 2819, pages 42-53, Berlin, Germany
  19. Conceptual model of web service reputation, Maximilien, E.M., and Singh, M. 2002. SIGMOD Record, ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data (2002) 36-41
  20. On the Dynamic Manipulation of Classes of Service for XML Web Services, Pagurek, B., Tosic, V., Ma, W., Esfandiari, B. 2003. In Proc. of the 10th Hewlett-Packard Open View University Association (HP-OVUA) Workshop, Geneva, Switzerland, July 6-9, 2003
  21. Quality of Service for Web Services-Demystification, Limitations, and Best Practices, Rajesh, S., and Arulazi, D. March 2003
  22. A Model for Web Services Discovery with QoS, RAN, SHUPING. 2003. ACM SIGecom Exchanges, 4(1):1-10
  23. Automating the procurement of Web Services, Ruiz-Cortes, A., Martin-Diaz, O., Benavides, D., Duran, A., and Toro, M. 2003. In Proc. of the International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC�03), Springer LNCS 2910, pages 91-103, Berlin, Germany
  24. Towards Automated SLA Management for Web Services, Sahai, A., Durante, A., and Machiraju, V. 2002. HPL-2001-310 (R.1)
  25. QoS Integration in Web Services, Tian, M., Gramm, A., Nabulsi, M., Ritter, H., Schiller, J., and T. Voigt, T. 2003. Gesellschaft fur Informatik DWS 2003, Doktorandenworkshop Technologien und Anwendungen von XML (Ph.D. students workshop Technologies and Applications of XML), Berlin, Germany, Oct. 2003
  26. Metrics for the Internet Age: Quality of Experience and Quality of Business, Van Moorsel, A. 2001. HP Labs Technical Report HPL-2001-179, July 2001
  27. DAML-QoS Ontology for Web Services, Zhou, C., Chia, L-T., and Lee, B-S. 2004. In: ICWS 2004: 472-479
- Simulation and Verification
  1. Web Service technologies and their synergy with simulation , S. Chandrasekaran, John A. Miller, Jorge Cardoso, Amit P. Sheth in proceedings of the 2002 Winter Simulation Conference, San Diego, California.
  2. Simulation,Verification and Automated Composition of Web Services , Narayanan S. and Mcllraith S, In Proc. of the Eleventh International World Wide Web Conference, Honolulu, HI, 2002.
  3. Using Simulation to Facilitate Effective Workflow Adaptation ,.Miller, J. A., J. S. Cardoso and G. Silver (2002). Proceedings of the 35th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS'02), San Diego, California. pp. 177-181
- Applications
  1. A Service Infrastructure for E-science: The Case of the ARION System, C. Houstis, S. Lalis, V. Christophides, D. Plesousakis, M. Vavalis, M. Pitikakis, K. Kritikos, A. Smardas, X. Gikas, CaiSE 2002, International Confarence WES 2002, Toronto, Canada.
  2. Mawl:Integrated Web and Telephone Service Creation, David Atkins and et al.
  3. Service Based Support For Scientific Workflows Sandeep Chandra, Master Thesis

Supplementary Bibliography

Standards - Initiatives

Related Projects

Workflow Projects
1. METEOR- Managing End-To-End OpeRations
2. Exotica
3. Intelligent Workflow for Collection Management
4. Dartflow
E-Services Projects
1. Web Flow Integration-Business Process Description Languages

Bibliography

Workshops/Conferences

TES, Technologies for E-Services
E O O W S First European Workshop on Object Orientation and Web Services in ocnjuction with ECOOP 2003, Darmstadt, Germany 21 July 2003

Useful Links

WSDL

WSDL Browser

UDDI (Deprecated)
See: WSMO & OWL-s (standards)
mDNS/Bonjour/Avahi, WS-Discovery, ebXML (implementations)
SOA Repository Artifact Model and Protocol (REST-full replacement of UDDI)

UDDI Browser
SOAP UDDI - An open source java implementation of UDDI version 2.0 server
UDDI4J - UDDI4J is a Java class library that provides an API to interact with a UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) registry

SOAP

Generic SOAP Client (soapclient.com)
SoapRMI - SOAP implementation from Indiana University
SOAP4J - IBM implementation of SOAP.
Apache SOAP - A SOAP implementation in JAVA, based on IBM SOAP4J

Open source

Micro Workflow

Commercial

Collaxa: The Web Service Orchestration Company
GroupWiseWeb-enabled Workgroup software from Novell.
Sun One
Netscape SuiteSpot server Uses Livelink's workflow functionality.
ActionWorks
FileNet One of the market leaders.
WorkXpert Workflow software from Mentor Graphics Corporation. Links to products, presentation, demos and technical papers

Software tools

DeskFlowA WFMS from Workflow International.
Workflow Analyzer Incorporates WorkFlow Modeler for diagramming your current business processes and proposed changes and WorkFlow Simulator for analyzing the effects of these changes.(pending)

Date	Lecture	Lab Lecture/Tutorial	Source Files
Monday 04/02/2019	Introduction
Monday 18/02/2019	BP Modeling
Wednesday 20/02/2019	WFMS Intro Modeling
Monday 25/02/2019	Workflow Analysis
Wednesday 06/03/2019	Workflow Transactions
Wednesday 13/03/2019	Process Mining
Monday 18/03/2019	Process Flexibility
Wednesday 27/03/2019	BPMN
Wednesday 03/04/2019	BPM-SOA
Wednesday 10/04/2019	SOA-Microservices
Monday 15/04/2019	BPM-Cloud

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Petri Nets

Assignment1

CPN Tools Tutorial

ADONIS

Project 2019

ADONIS Lab

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Teaching

Chrysostomos Zeginis

Pavlos Baritakis

Ioanna Apergi