Glossary Web Service: Self-contained software module available via a network. SOA: Service-oriented architecture, a software architecture based on Web services. BP: A Business Process “consists of a set of activities that are performed in coordination in an organizational and tech-nical environment

and reallocated among firms through the job creation and destruction process to create wealth and income, but jobs also play the major role in income distribution. For most families, the earnings which jobs generate are the basis of their income-and income distribution has been a topic of intense interest

for the purposes of process creation, such that the access control and authentication policies of each local machine are not violated. This mapping must ensure the integrity of the local machines, must ensure the integrity of the metasystem user's data, and must not unnecessarily burden either the metasystem

In this interlude, we discuss process creation in UNIX systems. UNIX presents one of the most intriguing ways to create a new process with a pair of system calls: fork() and exec(). A third routine,wait(), can be used by a process wishing to wait for a process it has created to complete. We now

The dynamic capabilities framework analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change. The competitive advantage of firms is seen as resting on distinctive processes (ways of coordinating and combining

in the form of a series of hypothesized relation-ships between different dimensions of social capital and the main mechanisms and processes necessary for the creation of intellectual capital. Kogut and Zander recently have proposed "that a firm be understood a s a social commu-nity specializing

, we present a collaborative synchronized Grid process creation environment for the service-oriented Grid, in which experts from different engineering and IT domains can interactively work on a single application process model, to quickly and efficiently design applications spanning multiple problem

Abstract. We initiate the study of probabilistic parallel programs with dynamic process creation and synchronisation. To this end, we introduce probabilistic split-join systems (pSJSs), a model for parallel programs, generalising both probabilistic pushdown systems (a model for sequential

illustrates how the Legion metasystem both accommodates and augments local security policies specifically with regard to process creation. For example, Legion configurations for local sites with different access control mechanisms such as standard UNIX mechanisms and Kerberos are compared. Through analysis

upon their social experience and expertise to structure their interactions with one another. To motivate and focus our ideas we develop a vision of knowledge communities, conversationally based systems that support the creation, management and reuse of knowledge in a social context. We describe our