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Scalable Business Process Enactment in Cloud Environments

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2012, EMMSAD 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 113))

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Business processes have to be enacted with increasing numbers of instances and under a growing pressure to reduce the cost of process enactment. Cloud computing provides scalable computing resources as utility at low cost. Therefore, this paper introduces service systems as new, cloud-based architecture for the scalable and flexible enactment of business processes.

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    Rainer Schmidt

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  2. LogicBlox, Australia, and INTI International University, Malaysia

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  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Sem Sælands Vei 7-9, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

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  6. Aalen University, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  7. University of Haifa, Carmel Mountain, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Pnina Soffer

  8. Department of Business Informatics, University of Gdansk, ul. Piaskowa 9, 81-864, Sopot, Poland

    Stanisław Wrycza

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Schmidt, R. (2012). Scalable Business Process Enactment in Cloud Environments. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_1

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