Gustavo Alonso Livres

This comprehensive exploration covers various aspects of business process maturity and performance. It delves into the process-oriented organization, presenting a holistic framework for business process orientation maturity. The challenges of measuring corporate IT performance are examined, alongside the impact of distributed actors on workflow processes. The text discusses the understandability of process models and the modeling of task-based authorization constraints in BPMN, along with cost considerations and incremental approaches. View-based process visualization and case studies highlight practical applications, including experiences from the financial industry and the alignment of customer processes with banking operations, particularly for small and medium-sized enterprises. The integration of workflow management systems with swarm intelligence for dynamic task assignment in emergency management is also featured. Compliance and change are addressed through modeling control objectives and generating business process models for object life cycle compliance. The text covers highly dynamic adaptations in process management systems, version management in the context of business process changes, and requirements-driven design and configuration management. Formal foundations of BPM are explored, including behavioral constraints for services and formal analysis of artifact-centric models. Business process mining techniqu

This collection explores various advancements in middleware systems and data sharing technologies. It covers topics such as securing publish/subscribe mechanisms in multi-domain environments and introduces ABACUS, a distributed middleware designed for privacy-preserving data sharing across private data warehouses. The annotation also discusses Causeway, which aids in controlling and analyzing multi-tier application execution, and MINERVA, a scalable peer-to-peer search engine. Further insights include optimal overlay topologies for peer-to-peer routing and a flexible, scalable publish/subscribe system. WReX offers a scalable architecture for XML caching in web services, while Inflatable XML Processing and INDISS focus on enhancing interoperability in networked services. The text examines dual-quorum replication for edge services and frugal event dissemination in mobile contexts, along with RTZen, a real-time Java middleware for distributed systems. Additionally, it addresses composite subscriptions in content-based systems, incentives in cooperative content distribution through Scrivener, and MEDYM's dynamic multicast for content-based networks. The exploration of generic middleware substrates, deep middleware for divergent grids, and opportunistic overlays for efficient content delivery in mobile networks is also included. Lastly, it highlights performance isolation in information flow applications with I-RMI, adaptive mid

The book delves into the complexities surrounding Web services, highlighting the confusion stemming from both optimistic projections and misunderstandings of their origins. It critiques the contradictory interpretations arising from attempts to integrate existing technologies with Web services, emphasizing the gap between potential future applications and the practical uses available today. By addressing these challenges, the author aims to clarify the true nature, contributions, and immediate applications of Web services in the current technological landscape.