Reliability and uptime are the key indicators of business systems supported by web services today. Business processes are linked together in web services by chain of components. Success or failure of business is determined by the reliability of this chain. In this paper, we proposed an enhanced reliability model for web services computing focusing on transactional-oriented web services applicat...

Semantic Business Process Management is an emerging research area to support enterprises achieving economic and strategic objectives and improving their daily business. However, the magnitude of changes which are required for models that capture the business processes is a challenge today. The necessity to change process models in order to stay synchronized with the reality is due to changing r...

The Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is a process modeling language which uses standard control constructs to define a process flow. But today enterprises have to be flexible and adaptable to cope with increasing change, uncertainty and unpredictability. Automating agile business processes is still a challenge as they are normally knowledge intensive, little automated but compliance r...

Today in response to the changes in global economy, growing customer demands and increasing IT possibilities the public sector adapts approaches that have proven to be successful in business environment. Many private companies have successfully implemented customer relationship management strategies and are starting to use knowledge management applications to improve the quality and efficiency ...

Today, web services are being deployed increasingly in industries as a means of enabling Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). With the success of such deployments, there are high demands from the industry for mechanisms that can enable highly secure and available web services, for handling complex business problems. This report discusses the resu...

Thank you for the opportunity to appear here today. I am Carl Shapiro, the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy in the Haas School of Business, and Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics, at the University of California at Berkeley, where I have taught since 1990. I also am Director of the Institute of Business and Economic Research, an Organized Research Unit at U.C. Berk...

Legacy information systems are usually tailored to support particular business functions, such as payroll or purchasing, and are as a consequence usually difficult to integrate. However, companies of today strive to streamline their business processes (intraas well as inter-organizational). This gives rise to a strong need for much better integration of systems (existing as well as new in-house...

Today web application development is under the pressure of evolving business needs, compressed timelines, and limited resources. These dynamics demand a streamlined set of tools that turns concepts into reality and minimises the gap between the original business requirements and the final physical implementation of the web application. This paper will demonstrate how this gap can be reduced by ...

Today, with the growing dependence on technology and increasing population growth, the impact of man-made and natural disasters, on human lives and financial losses, is greater than ever. Though some businesses are investing in business continuity planning, others are still reluctant. “An estimated 80 percent of companies without a well-conceived and tested business continuity plan, go out of b...

In business today, only the profitable will survive. While companies may strive to ramp up sales, increase market share, or hit customer service targets there is no model to sustain a successful business without profits. Thought it sounds logical, many companies don’t strive for profitability, as the objective. It is often mortgaged, sometimes unwittingly, because management does not have a fir...