Globus Automation Services: Research Process Automation Across the Space-Time Continuum

Web Services Composition for Business Process Automation

Composition of web services has received much interest to support business-to-business or enterprise application integration. Current standards to formalize the specification of web services, their flow composition and execution are introduced in this paper. Web services composition includes static and dynamic composition. We thoroughly introduced the static composition based on BPEL4WS through...

Time-constrained web services for industrial automation

Service-oriented architectures based on web services have become the de facto standard for the design and implementation of distributed applications. Due to their standardization, web services are widely adopted for inter-organizational communication, but their use for intra-organizational communication is challenging, especially within enterprises of the manufacturing domain. Business processe...

Agile Business Process Automation

Traditional development approaches (particularly in fixed price, outsourced projects) are normally based on a contractuallyfixed set of requirements and relatively heavy change-control processes. Movements in the IT industry to formulate new development approaches to match more realistic business scenarios where requirements are continually refined and updated in the course of a project, have r...

Home Automation : Research Issues

Investigating the usability of an Integrated Research Automation System (SEAT): Heuristic Evaluation

Background and Objectives: Today, many hardware and software products, including office automation software, and web-based websites are used by employees, including professors and employees of different departments in offices. Websites are considered one of the main aspects of competition in any organization. This study aims to investigate the usability of the Integrated Research Automation Sys...