Sophisticated workflows, where multiple parties cooperate towards the achievement of a shared goal are today common. In a market-oriented setup, it is key that effective mechanisms be available for providing accountability within the business process. The challenge is to be able to continuously monitor the progress of the business process, ideally,anticipating contract breaches and triggering c...

Big data plays an important role in smart city. Big data analytics is one of the recent technologies that could enhance smart city services. It provides valuable insights from massive volume of data collected through various sources. The combination of big data and Internet of Things (IoT) supports urban decision makers and provides better services to the citizens. This paper is focused on revi...

Corresponding Author: Lidong Wang Department of Engineering Technology, Mississippi Valley State University, USA Email: [email protected] Abstract: Big Data can unify all patient related data to get a 360-degree view of the patient to analyze and predict outcomes. It can improve clinical practices, new drug development and health care financing process. It offers a lot of benefits suc...

As competitiveness increases, being able to guaranting QoS of delivered services is key for business success. It is thus of paramount importance the ability to continuously monitor the workflow providing a service and to timely recognize breaches in the agreed QoS level. The ideal condition would be the possibility to anticipate, thus predict, a breach and operate to avoid it, or at least to mi...