Business and Scientific Workflows / IEEE Series on Systems Science and Engineering (PDF)

Focuses on how to use web service computing and service-based
workflow technologies to develop timely, effective workflows for
both business and scientific fields

Utilizing web computing and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA),
Business and Scientific Workflows: A Web Service-Oriented
Approach focuses on how to design, analyze, and deploy web
service-based workflows for both business and scientific
applications in many areas of healthcare and biomedicine. It also
discusses and presents the recent research and development
results.

This informative reference features application scenarios that
include healthcare and biomedical applications, such as
personalized healthcare processing, DNA sequence data processing,
and electrocardiogram wave analysis, and presents:

* Updated research and development results on the composition
technologies of web services for ever-sophisticated service
requirements from various users and communities

* Fundamental methods such as Petri nets and social network
analysis to advance the theory and applications of workflow design
and web service composition

* Practical and real applications of the developed theory and
methods for such platforms as personalized healthcare and
Biomedical Informatics Grids

* The authors' efforts on advancing service composition methods
for both business and scientific software systems, with theoretical
and empirical contributions

With workflow-driven service composition and reuse being a hot
topic in both academia and industry, this book is ideal for
researchers, engineers, scientists, professionals, and students who
work on service computing, software engineering, business and
scientific workflow management, the internet, and management
information systems (MIS).