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Network as a Service (NaaS) enables cloud customers to connect their distributed services across multiple clouds without relying exclusively on their infrastructures. The discovery of NaaS services remains challenging not only because of their ...

LoRaWAN technology is of particular importance in the Internet of Things realm. It is a simple network architecture with a default-working mode optimized to sensors with limited power autonomy and a few downlink exchanges with the ...

Blockchain technologies have emerged to serve as a trust basis for the monitoring and execution of business processes, particularly business process choreographies. However, dealing with changes in smart contract-enabled business processes remains ...

The proliferation of sensor devices and services along with the advances in event processing brings many new opportunities as well as challenges. It is now possible to provide, analyze and react upon real-time, complex events about physical or ...

In the recent years, growing attention has been paid to the concept of Cloud Computing as a new computing paradigm for executing and handling operations/processes in an efficient and cost-effective way. Cloud Computing’s elasticity and its ...

• We propose an elasticity strategies evaluation framework.
• We propose a domain-specific language for describing elastic execution environments of SBPs based on a formal model specification of SBP.
• We present domain specific ...

Normative Multi-agent system (NMAS) forms a promising approach to software engineering for the development of autonomous systems, in norms-based environments. During the construction of these systems, different requirements can be considered: ...

Holonic Multi-Agent System (HMAS) forms a promising approach to software engineering for the modeling and development of hierarchical autonomous systems (Intelligent transportation systems, Smart city management systems, etc.). Effectively, norms ...

Designing configurable process models is tedious, time consuming and error prone.We automatically design them by merging multiple variants of the same process.Our algorithm creates them in few milliseconds and achieves 50% compression rate.We ...

Nowadays, Cloud Computing is receiving more and more attention from IT companies as a new computing paradigm for executing and handling their Business Processes in an efficient and cost-effective way. One of the most important features behind this ...

Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new computing paradigm enabling on-demand and scalable provision of resources, platforms and software as services. In order to satisfy different storage requirements, cloud applications usually need to access ...

Current approaches for semantic management of business processes and services assume and build on semantic models which don't exist in practice. A key and open research problem is how to lift semantic models from existing process and service ...

Service computing has gained great success because it decouples service providers and consumers. Because of this decoupling, it is possible to reuse software applications without knowing their implementation details. However, business applications ...

In this paper, we discuss the importance of the concept of capability for describing what an action does from a functional perspective. We introduce a conceptual model for representing capabilities as attribute features entities. Furthermore, we use ...

Current Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems require considerable technical efforts for event pattern definition and event stream implementation. In this paper, we present a service oriented framework that provides a user centric way to define complex ...

Cloud Computing is an elastic execution environment becoming the dominating solution for scalable and on-demand computing, and a large market of cloud providers has recently emerged. IaaS is a realisation of the Cloud Computing at the level of ...

Given the inherent autonomy, heterogeneity, and continuous evolution of Web services, mismatches usually exist between service protocols and mediated interactions are a common style of service interactions. Given a requestor service and an interaction ...

In recent years, we witness the increasing trend that more applications are developed by composing Web services. Services interact with each other in ways not necessarily foreseen during their development phase. In this setting, mismatches usually exist ...