A concise and practical introduction to the foundations and engineering principles of self-
adaptation Though it has recently gained significant momentum, the topic of self-adaptation …

Recent advancements in digital technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of
Things (IoT), and information and communication technologies (ICT), are transforming …

Citizens of the digital world are threatened. The digital systems that surround them are
increasingly able to make autonomous decisions over and above them and on their behalf …

The design of systems that can change their behaviour to account for scenarios that were
not foreseen at design time remains an open challenge. In this article, we propose an …

Business process management is concerned with the design execution, improvement, and
monitoring of business processes. Systems that support the enactment and execution of …

A current trend in service-oriented architectures is to break coarse-grained monolith
systems, encapsulating all function capabilities, down into small-scale and fine-grained …

Service choreographies represent a powerful and flexible approach to compose software
services in a fully distributed way. A key enabler for the actual realization of choreographies …

Reuse-based software engineering is becoming the main approach for developing business
and commercial systems. Service choreographies support the reuse-based service-oriented …

Next Generation Internet (NGI) is the European initiative launched to identify the future
internet technologies, designed to serve the needs of the digitalized society while ensuring …

Service choreographies support a distributed composition approach that is based on the
specification of the external interaction of the participant services in terms of flows of …