We present a method for contouring an implicit function using a grid topologically dual to
structured grids such as octrees. By aligning the vertices of the dual grid with the features of …

This book starts with an introduction to process modeling and process paradigms, then
explains how to query and analyze process models, and how to analyze the process …

BPEL is the de facto standard for business process modeling in today's enterprises and is a
promising candidate for the integration of business and Grid applications. Current BPEL …

Web services provide a way to facilitate the business integration over the Internet. Flexibility
is an important and desirable property of Web service-based systems due to dynamic …

Several approaches have been proposed to introduce self-management capabilities for
Web service compositions. However, most of these works are limited as they are not …

The dynamic nature of the Internet poses various challenges to the successful execution of
composite Web services. Failures are samples of these challenges. It needs to be …

A computationally efficient distributed beamforming technique for multi-user relay networks
is developed. The channel state information is assumed to be known at the relays or …

Current adaptation approaches mainly work in isolation and cannot be easily integrated to
tackle complex adaptation scenarios. The few existing cross-layer adaptation techniques are …

With a variety of services rapidly evolving at all architectural levels of cloud computing, there
is an increasing demand for a standardized way to coordinate their interactions. Business …

Dynamic service binding is essential for runtime adaptability of BPEL processes, particularly
in the case of service failure. BPEL's support for dynamic service binding is coupled with the …