Bridging the gap between business process models and service-oriented architectures with reference to the grid environment

International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 253-283

  Khan, Zaheer ^a   Odeh, Mohammed ^a   McClatchey, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grid aware utility services; Metamodels; Model transformation; Model driven engineering; Pi ADL; Process enactment; RAD business process models

Indexed keywords

ARCHITECTURE; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION SERVICES;

BUSINESS PROCESS MODEL; GRID AWARE UTILITY SERVICES; META MODEL; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; PROCESS ENACTMENT;

SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA);

EID: 80053921875     PISSN: 1741847X     EISSN: 17418488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJGUC.2011.042943     Document Type: Article

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