Based on recent research in business process modeling and management enhanced integration of resource management can be beneficial. In this context appropriate resources can be identified by matching their profiles with business process requirements. Requirements may be generated from business process models as competence profiles, if advanced modeling techniques that enable detailed modeling a...

One of the key tasks in the service oriented architecture that semantic web services aim to automate is the discovery of services that can fulfill the application or user needs. OWL-S is one of the proposals for describing semantic metadata about web services, which is based on the OWL ontology language. The OWL-S ontology is organized in three modules: the Service Profile module describes the ...

Recent analyses of real data/internet tra c indicate that data tra c exhibits long-range dependence as well as self-similar or multi-fractal properties. By using mathematical models of Internet tra c that share these properties we can perform analytical studies of network tra c. This gives us an opportunity to analyse potential bottlenecks and estimate delays in the networks. Processes with mul...

Process model matching refers to the automatic detection of semantically equivalent or similar activities between two process models. The output of process model matchers is the basis for many advanced process model analysis techniques and, therefore, must be as accurate as possible. Measuring the performance of process model matchers, however, is a difficult task. On the one hand, it is hard t...

As business process models have a broad scope of applications, e.g., in science or in business administration the problem of handling large amounts of process models arises. One helpful tool for dealing with this amount of models is to reduce it by using similarity measures in order to detect similar models that can be merged. A set of similar models may be replaced by one model. As a pure simi...

Due to fast evolution on the services provided by telecommunication companies, the Information Technology (IT) environment has been gaining an increasingly importance inside organizations. It is no more a silent partner, involved only on the daily’s operations, without any influence on the company’s strategy and management. In the recent years, Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITI...

In this paper, we focus on two problems of the Web service-based business process integration: the discovery of Web services based on the capabilities and properties of published services, and the composition of business processes based on the business requirements of submitted requests. We propose a solution to these problems, which comprises multiple matching algorithms, a micro-level matchin...

We analyze a myopic strategy adjustment process in strategic-form games. It is shown that the steady states of the continuous time limit, which is constructed assuming frequent play and slow adjustment of strategies, are exactly the best-reply matching equilibria, as discussed by Droste, Kosfeld, and Voorneveld (2000. Mimeo, Tilburg University). In a best-reply matching equilibrium every player...

Case based reasoning (CBR) retrieval operations with partial ordering similarity measures have been implemented in LINDA to extract generic operations and identify potential parallelism in CBR. Mapping and reduction operations, and constraint matching versions of all retrieval operations were identified, then implemented in LINDA. Their operational semantics were expressed in terms of the CHAM ...

Interoperability among systems using different term vocabularies requires some mapping between terms in the vocabularies. Matching applications generate such mappings. When the matching process utilizes term meaning (instead of simply relying on syntax), we refer to the process as semantic matching. If users are to use the results of matching applications, they need information about the mappin...