Data Mining - Concepts and Techniques.

The article reviews the book “Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy,” by Carl Shapiro and Hal R. Varian.

Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy

(1963). Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine. Technometrics: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 128-130.

Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine

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Software ecosystems - A systematic literature review

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Business Process Reengineering: BreakPoint Strategies for Market Dominance

Business processes orchestrate service requests in a structured fashion. Process knowledge, however, has rarely been used to predict and decide about cloud infrastructure resource usage. In this paper, we present an approach for BPM-aware cloud computing that builds on process knowledge to improve the timeliness and quality of resource scaling decisions. We introduce an IaaS resource controller based on fuzzy theory that monitors process execution and that is used to predict and control resource requirements for subsequent process tasks. In a laboratory experiment, we evaluate the controller design against a commercially available state-of-the-art auto scaler. Based on the results, we discuss improvements and limitations, and suggest directions for further research.

Scalable Business Process Execution in the Cloud

Inconsistent and incomplete information due to the diversity of isolated information architectures in modern healthcare enterprises is one of the major problems information technology has to face in healthcare. The approach of this work is to apply existing Business Process Management principles to medical information systems providing healthcare enterprises a reliable and timely access to relevant patient information. In doing so, this work outlines a workflow implementation of a clinical infection control process done in collaboration with a major healthcare provider and a regional healthcare facility in the U.S. The workflow utilizes the Health Level Seven (HL7) communication standard to integrate disparate systems and to automate clinical decision making according to clinical knowledge. The final data analysis clearly emphasizes the capability of Business Process Management to improve the integration of information, increase the quality of patient care, reduce health worker's stress, and reduce costs of treatment.

Optimizing U.S. Health Care Processes - A Case Study in Business Process Management.

With the emergence of digital business ecosystems, new control mechanisms are required to sustainably ensure responsiveness on dynamically evolving consumer demand, as well as goal congruence with the platform providers' strategic goals. Based on system theoretical reflections, we propose a 3-layer reference architecture that collects data on service interactions, aggregates monitoring and feedback information and thus provides data basis for the said control mechanisms.

A reference architecture for feedback-based control of service ecosystems

In the service-oriented computing paradigm and the Web service architecture, the broker role is a key facilitator to leverage technical capabilities of loose coupling to achieve organizational capabilities of dynamic customer-provider-relationships. In practice, this role has quickly evolved into a variety of intermediary concepts that refine and extend the basic functionality of service brokerage with respect to various forms of added value like platform or market mechanisms. While this has initially led to a rich variety of Web service intermediaries, many of these are now going through a phase of stagnation or even decline in customer acceptance. In this paper we present a comparative study on insufficient service quality that is arguably one of the key reasons for this phenomenon. In search of a differentiation with respect to quality monitoring and management patterns, we categorize intermediaries into Infomediaries, e-Hubs, e-Markets and Integrators. A mapping of quality factors and control mechanisms to these categories depicts their respective strengths and weaknesses. The results show that Integrators have the highest overall performance, followed by e-Markets, e-Hubs and lastly Infomediaries. A comparative market survey confirms the conceptual findings.

Perspectives for Web Service Intermediaries: How Influence on Quality Makes the Difference

Cloud storage federation improves service availability and reduces vendor lock-in risks of single-provider cloud storage solutions. Federation therefore distributes and replicates data among different cloud storage providers. Missing controls on data location and distribution however introduce security and compliance issues. This paper proposes a novel approach of using data-driven usage control to preserve compliance constraints in cloud storage federation. Based on common compliance regulations and laws we provide a brief categorization of compliance problems into spatial, temporal, and qualitative requirements. In addition, we show how usage control policies can be employed to constrain federation according to these categories. To demonstrate the feasibility of our approach we evaluate security and performance of our prototypical implementation.

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Robin Fischer

Papers

Scalable Business Process Execution in the Cloud

Optimizing U.S. Health Care Processes - A Case Study in Business Process Management.

A reference architecture for feedback-based control of service ecosystems

Perspectives for Web Service Intermediaries: How Influence on Quality Makes the Difference

Compliance-Preserving Cloud Storage Federation Based on Data-Driven Usage Control