Publish/subscribe systems are getting more and more integrated into the execution of business processes in process aware information systems. This integration enables the distribution of the process logic and increases the scalability and adaptability of the process enactment infrastructure. A...

The concept of variability is not new in software engineering, but current research mostly remains vague about the overall variability concept when it comes to giving a clear overview of the dimensions of variability. In this paper we evaluate the core variability concept by proposing an...

In this research report we study service coordination, which is a crucial aspect when services are combined into service-based systems (Metzger & Pohl, 2009).Coordination is not only in computer science an important research topic. It is also studied in disciplines such as organization theory,...

There is a consensus among academics and practitioners that ICT investments should be carefully justified, measured and controlled. This is not different for the development of a service architecture or the development of particular services as such. In practice, the traditional capital...