A large number of distributed applications requires continuous and timely processing of
information as it flows from the periphery to the center of the system. Examples include …

The cloud computing paradigm has become a mainstream solution for the deployment of
business processes and applications. In the public cloud vision, infrastructure, platform, and …

In recent years, monitoring the compliance of business processes with relevant regulations,
constraints, and rules during runtime has evolved as major concern in literature and …

Web service processes currently lack monitoring and dynamic (runtime) adaptation
mechanisms. In highly dynamic processes, services frequently need to be exchanged due to …

Many emerging domains such as ambient intelligence, context-aware applications, and
pervasive computing are embracing the assumption that their software applications will be …

Business Process flexibility supports organizations in changing their everyday work activities
to remain competitive. Since much research has been done on this topic a better awareness …

Any enterprise must ensure that its business processes comply with imposed compliance
rules. The latter stem, for example, from corporate guidelines, legal regulations, and best …

The Cloud offers enhanced flexibility in the management of resources for any kind of
application while it promises the reduction of its cost as well as its infinite scalability. In this …

When operating in volatile environments, service-based systems (SBSs) that are
dynamically composed from component services must be monitored in order to guarantee …

This chapter describes SERENITY's approach to runtime monitoring and the framework that
has been developed to support it. Runtime monitoring is required in SERENITY in order to …