Next Generation SOA: A Real-World Guide to Modern Service-Oriented Computing

Product DescriptionWith accelerating adoption amongst organizations of all types and sizes, SOA is increasingly becoming the mainstream paradigm for enterprise IT architecture and software development. SOA offers immense potential to increase ROI, enhance organizational agility, and reduce IT burdens, but many organizations have not yet achieved the benefits it promises. Fortunately, with SOA’s growth, best [...]

Paradosiaká: Music, Meaning and Identity in Modern Greece

Product DescriptionSince the 1980s, musicians and audiences in Athens have been rediscovering musical traditions associated with the Ottoman period of Greek history. The result of this revivalist movement has been the urban musical style of ‘paradosiaka’ (’traditional’). Drawing from a varied repertoire that includes Turkish art music and folk and popular musics of Greece and [...]

Modern Business Process Automation: YAWL and its Support Environment

Product DescriptionTopics covered include: The fundamentals of business process modeling, including workflow patterns, an in-depth treatment of process flexibility, including approaches to dealing with on-the-fly changes, unexpected exceptions, and constraint-based processes, Technological aspects of a modern BPM environment, including its architecture,  process design environment, process engine, resource handler and other support services, a comparative insight into [...]