Resource pools are computing environments that offer virtualized access to shared resources. When used effectively they can align the use of capacity with business needs (flexi...
Jerry Rolia, Ludmila Cherkasova, Martin F. Arlitt,...
Workflow management systems (WFMS) are a cornerstone of mission-criticial, possibly cross-organizational business processes. For largescale applications both their performance and ...
Abstract. We propose a meta-meta framework architecture for supporting the behavior based integration of two business processes. The meta-meta level provides basic integration oper...
Georg Grossmann, Michael Schrefl, Markus Stumptner
—In the majority of today’s IT organizations, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are an important means for underpinning IT service provisioning by clearly defined Quality of Ser...
Rapid growth of the demand for computational power by scientific, business and web-applications has led to the creation of large-scale data centers consuming enormous amounts of el...