On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS

On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2007: CoopIS, DOA, ODBASE, GADA, and IS

Author: Zahir Tari

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-11-21

Total Pages: 1189

ISBN-13: 3540768483

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This two-volume set LNCS 4803/4804 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the five confederated international conferences on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS 2007), Distributed Objects and Applications (DOA 2007), Ontologies, Databases and Applications of Semantics (ODBASE 2007), Grid computing, high performAnce and Distributed Applications (GADA 2007), and Information Security (IS 2007) held as OTM 2007 in Vilamoura, Portugal, in November 2007. The 95 revised full and 21 revised short papers presented together with 5 keynote talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 362 submissions. Corresponding with the five OTM 2007 main conferences CoopIS, ODBASE, GADA, and DOA, the papers are organized in topical sections on process analysis and semantics, process modeling, P2P, collaboration, business transactions, dependability and security, middleware and web services, aspects and development tools, mobility and distributed algorithms, frameworks, patterns, and testbeds, ontology mapping, semantic querying, ontology development, learning and text mining, annotation and metadata management, ontology applications, data and storage, networks, collaborative grid environment and scientific grid applications, scheduling, middleware, data analysis, scheduling and management, access control and authentication, intrusion detection, system and services security, network security, malicious code and code security, as well as trust and information management.


Business Process Management Workshops

Business Process Management Workshops

Author: Manfred Reichert

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-07-25

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 331942887X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of ten international workshops held in Innsbruck, Austria, in conjunction with the 13th International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2015, in September 2015. The seven workshops comprised Adaptive Case Management and other Non-workflow Approaches to BPM (AdaptiveCM 2015), Business Process Intelligence (BPI 2015), Social and Human Aspects of Business Process Management (BPMS2 2015), Data- and Artifact-centric BPM (DAB 2015), Decision Mining and Modeling for Business Processes (DeMiMoP 2015), Process Engineering (IWPE 2015), and Theory and Applications of Process Visualization (TaProViz 2015). The 42 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 submissions. In addition, four short papers and one keynote (from TAProViz) are also included in this book.


Robust Process Mining with Guarantees

Robust Process Mining with Guarantees

Author: Sander J. J. Leemans

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-03-25

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 3030966550

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This book presents techniques for process discovery, conformance checking and enhancement. For process discovery, it introduces the Inductive Miner framework: a recursive skeleton for discovery techniques that in itself provides several guarantees. The framework is instantiated in several concrete discovery techniques, each of which targets a specific challenge of process discovery, such as incompleteness of information or noisy behavior. For conformance checking, it introduces the Projected Conformance Checking framework, which focuses on speed, but nevertheless provides several guarantees, such as that for certain classes of models, it can decide language equivalence. For enhancement, it introduces the Inductive visual Miner, a well-polished end-user focused tool that includes process discovery, conformance checking and that can visualize performance on a discovered model, all without any user input.


Innovations, Developments, and Applications of Semantic Web and Information Systems

Innovations, Developments, and Applications of Semantic Web and Information Systems

Author: Lytras, Miltiadis D.

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2018-01-19

Total Pages: 493

ISBN-13: 1522550437

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In the last few years, there has been an increased advancement and evolution in semantic web and information systems in a variety of fields. The integration of these approaches to ontology engineering, sophisticated methods and algorithms for open linked data extraction, and advanced decision-making creates new opportunities for a bright future. Innovations, Developments, and Applications of Semantic Web and Information Systems is a critical scholarly resource that discusses integrated methods of research and analytics in information technology. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics, such as cognitive computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data analysis, and algorithms, this book is geared towards researchers, academicians, and professionals seeking current information on semantic web and information systems.


Artifact-Driven Business Process Monitoring

Artifact-Driven Business Process Monitoring

Author: Giovanni Meroni

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-23

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 3030324125

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This book proposes a novel technique, named artifact-driven process monitoring, by which multi-party processes, involving non-automated activities, can be continuously and autonomously monitored. This technique exploits the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm to make the physical objects, participating in a process, smart. Being equipped with sensors, a computing device, and a communication interface, such smart objects can then become self-aware of their own conditions and of the process they participate in, and exchange this information with the other smart objects and the involved organizations. To allow organizations to reuse preexisting process models, a method to instruct smart objects given Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) collaboration diagrams is also presented. The work constitutes a revised version of the PhD dissertation written by the author at the PhD School of Information Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy. In 2019, the PhD dissertation won the “CAiSE PhD award”, granted to outstanding PhD theses in the field of Information Systems Engineering.


Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security

Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security

Author: M. Eric Johnson

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-04-05

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0387097627

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Security has been a human concern since the dawn of time. With the rise of the digital society, information security has rapidly grown to an area of serious study and ongoing research. While much research has focused on the technical aspects of computer security, far less attention has been given to the management issues of information risk and the economic concerns facing firms and nations. Managing Information Risk and the Economics of Security provides leading edge thinking on the security issues facing managers, policy makers, and individuals. Many of the chapters of this volume were presented and debated at the 2008 Workshop on the Economics of Information Security (WEIS), hosted by the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Sponsored by Tuck’s Center for Digital Strategies and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), the conference brought together over one hundred information security experts, researchers, academics, reporters, corporate executives, government officials, cyber crime investigators and prosecutors. The group represented the global nature of information security with participants from China, Italy, Germany, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Japan, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the US. This volume would not be possible without the dedicated work Xia Zhao (of Dartmouth College and now the University of North Carolina, Greensboro) who acted as the technical editor.


Architecture of Interoperable Information Systems

Architecture of Interoperable Information Systems

Author: Jörg Ziemann

Publisher: Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 3832524142

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The automation of cross-organizational business processes is one of the most important trends of the information age. Instead of a tight integration however, collaborating organizations rather strive for a loose coupling of their information systems. Supporting this objective, the Architecture of Interoperable Information Systems (AIOS) represents a means for the comprehensive description of loosely coupled, interoperating information systems and for the systematic, model-based enactment of collaborative business processes. To this aim, it combines concepts from the areas of enterprise modeling, collaborative business and Service-oriented Computing. At the core of the architecture lies the Business Interoperability Interface, which describes the information system boundaries of one organization to its collaboration partners and connects internal and external information systems. Detailed procedure models specify the usage of the AIOS; its application to an example scenario as well as prototypes that implement core aspects of the AIOS exemplify the method. This book addresses researchers as well as practitioners interested in the areas of organizational interoperability and the modeling and enactment of collaborative business processes.


Conformance Checking

Conformance Checking

Author: Josep Carmona

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-11-11

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 331999414X

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This book introduces readers to the field of conformance checking as a whole and outlines the fundamental relation between modelled and recorded behaviour. Conformance checking interrelates the modelled and recorded behaviour of a given process and provides techniques and methods for comparing and analysing observed instances of a process in the presence of a model, independent of the model’s origin. Its goal is to provide an overview of the essential techniques and methods in this field at an intuitive level, together with precise formalisations of its underlying principles. The book is divided into three parts, that are meant to cover different perspectives of the field of conformance checking. Part I presents a comprehensive yet accessible overview of the essential concepts used to interrelate modelled and recorded behaviour. It also serves as a reference for assessing how conformance checking efforts could be applied in specific domains. Next, Part II provides readers with detailed insights into algorithms for conformance checking, including the most commonly used formal notions and their instantiation for specific analysis questions. Lastly, Part III highlights applications that help to make sense of conformance checking results, thereby providing a necessary next step to increase the value of a given process model. They help to interpret the outcomes of conformance checking and incorporate them by means of enhancement and repair techniques. Providing the core building blocks of conformance checking and describing its main applications, this book mainly addresses students specializing in business process management, researchers entering process mining and conformance checking for the first time, and advanced professionals whose work involves process evaluation, modelling and optimization.


Innovations in Database Design, Web Applications, and Information Systems Management

Innovations in Database Design, Web Applications, and Information Systems Management

Author: Siau, Keng

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-09-30

Total Pages: 505

ISBN-13: 1466620455

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New techniques and tools for database and database technologies are continuously being introduced. These technologies are the heart of many business information systems and can benefit from theories, models, and research results from other disciplines. Innovations in Database Design, Web Applications, and Information Systems Management presents ideal research in the areas of database theory, systems design, ontologies, and many more. Including examples of the convergence of ideas from various disciplines aimed at improving and developing the theory of information technology and management of information resources, this book is useful for researchers and practitioners in the IT field.


Design, Performance, and Analysis of Innovative Information Retrieval

Design, Performance, and Analysis of Innovative Information Retrieval

Author: Lu, Zhongyu (Joan)

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2012-08-31

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1466619767

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Daily procedures such as scientific experiments and business processes have the potential to create a huge amount of data every day, hour, or even second, and this may lead to a major problem for the future of efficient data search and retrieval as well as secure data storage for the world’s scientists, engineers, doctors, librarians, and business managers. Design, Performance, and Analysis of Innovative Information Retrieval examines a number of emerging technologies that significantly contribute to modern Information Retrieval (IR), as well as fundamental IR theories and concepts that have been adopted into new tools or systems. This reference is essential to researchers, educators, professionals, and students interested in the future of IR.