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A Configuration-Management-Database Driven Approach for Fabric-Process Specification and Automation

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops (OTM 2014)

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In this paper we describe an approach that integrates a Configuration-Management-Database into fabric-process specification and automation in order to consider different conditions regarding to cloud-services. By implementing our approach, the complexity of fabric-processes gets reduced. We developed a prototype by using formal prototyping principles as research methods and integrated the Configuration-Management-Database Command into the Workflow-Management-System Activiti. We used this prototype to evaluate our approach. We implemented three different fabric-processes and show that by using our approach the complexity of these three fabric-processes gets reduced.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Mathematics, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Lothstr. 64, 80335, Munich, Germany

    Florian Bär & Rainer Schmidt

  2. Faculty of Business Administration, Aalen University of Applied Sciences, Germany

    Michael Möhring

  3. Faculty of Computer Science, Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences, Alteburgstraße 150, 72762, Reutlingen, Germany

    Alfred Zimmermann & Dierk Jugel

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  2. CRAN, University of Lorraine, Campus Sciences, BP 70239, 54506, Vandoevre-les-Nancy, France

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  3. Department of Software Engineering, Atilim Univeristy, Kızılcaşar Mh Mh, 06830, Ankara, Turkey

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Bär, F., Schmidt, R., Möhring, M., Zimmermann, A., Jugel, D. (2014). A Configuration-Management-Database Driven Approach for Fabric-Process Specification and Automation. In: Meersman, R., et al. On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2014 Workshops. OTM 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8842. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45550-0_21

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