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Record Nr.

UNINA9910830261003321

Autore

Tan Wei

Titolo

Business and scientific workflows [[electronic resource] ] : a web service-oriented approach / / Wei Tan, MengChu Zhou

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, N.J., : Wiley, 2013

ISBN

1-299-27728-4

1-118-55465-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

IEEE Press series on systems science and engineering

Altri autori (Persone)

ZhouMengChu

Disciplina

003

658.4038011

Soggetti

Workflow

Business - Data processing

Information technology

Industrial management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Business and Scientific Workflows: A Web Service-Oriented Approach; Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction; 1.1 Background and Motivations; 1.1.1 Web Service and Service-Oriented Architecture; 1.1.2 Workflow Technology; 1.2 Overview of Standards; 1.2.1 Web Service-Related Standards; 1.2.2 Workflow-Related Standards; 1.3 Workflow Design: State of the Art; 1.3.1 Automatic Service Composition; 1.3.2 Mediation-Aided Service Composition; 1.3.3 Verification of Service-Based Workflows; 1.3.4 Decentralized Execution of Workflows; 1.3.5 Scientific Workflow Systems; 1.4 Contributions

2. Petri Net Formalism2.1 Basic Petri Nets; 2.2 Workflow Nets; 2.3 Colored Petri Nets; 3. Data-Driven Service Composition; 3.1 Problem Statement; 3.1.1 Domains and Data Relations; 3.1.2 Problem Formulation; 3.2 Data-Driven Composition Rules; 3.2.1 Sequential Composition Rule; 3.2.2 Parallel Composition Rule; 3.2.3 Choice Composition Rule; 3.3 Data-Driven Service Composition; 3.3.1 Basic Definitions; 3.3.2 Derive AWSP from Service Net; 3.4 Effectiveness and Efficiency of the Data-Driven Approach; 3.4.1 Solution Effectiveness; 3.4.2 Complexity Analysis; 3.5 Case Study; 3.6 Discussion



3.7 Summary3.8 Bibliographic Notes; 4. Analysis and Composition of Partially-Compatible Web Services; 4.1 Problem Definition and Motivating Scenario; 4.1.1 A Motivating Scenario; 4.2 Petri Net Formalism for BPEL Service, Mediation, and Compatibility; 4.2.1 CPN Formalism for BPEL Process; 4.2.2 CPN Formalism for Service Composition; 4.2.3 Mediator and Mediation-Aided Service Composition; 4.3 Compatibility Analysis via Petri Net Models; 4.3.1 Transforming Abstract BPEL Process to SWF-net; 4.3.2 Specifying Data Mapping; 4.3.3 Mediator Existence Checking; 4.3.4 Proof of Theorem 4.1

4.4 Mediator Generation Approach4.4.1 Types of Mediation; 4.4.2 Guided Mediator Generation; 4.5 Bibliographic Notes; 4.5.1 Web Service Composition; 4.5.2 Business Process Integration; 4.5.3 Web Service Configuration; 4.5.4 Petri Net Model of BPEL Processes; 4.5.5 Component/Web Service Mediation; 5. Web Service Configuration with Multiple Quality-of-Service Attributes; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Quality-of-Service Measurements; 5.2.1 QoS Attributes; 5.2.2 Aggregation; 5.2.3 Computation of QoS; 5.3 Assembly Petri Nets and Their Properties; 5.3.1 Assembly and Disassembly Petri Nets

5.3.2 Definition of Incidence Matrix and State-Shift Equation5.3.3 Definition of Subgraphs and Solutions; 5.4 Optimal Web Service Configuration; 5.4.1 Web Service Configuration under Single QoS Objective; 5.4.2 Web Service Configuration under Multiple QoS Objectives; 5.4.3 Experiments and Performance Analysis; 5.5 Implementation; 5.6 Summary; 5.7 Bibliographic Notes; 6. A Web Service-Based Public-Oriented Personalized Health Care Platform; 6.1 Background and Motivation; 6.2 System Architecture; 6.2.1 The System Architecture of PHISP; 6.2.2 Services Encapsulated in PHISP

6.2.3 Composite Service Specifications

Sommario/riassunto

Focuses on how to use web service computing and service-based workflow technologies to develop timely, effective workflows for both business and scientific fields  Utilizing web computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Business and Scientific Workflows: A Web Service-Oriented Approach focuses on how to design, analyze, and deploy web service-based workflows for both business and scientific applications in many areas of healthcare and biomedicine. It also discusses and presents the recent research and development results. This informative reference features app