Introducing the vienna platform for elastic processes

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2013-11
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Schulte, Stefan  
Hoenisch, Philipp  
Venugopal, Srikumar  
Dustdar, Schahram  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/11940
First published in
Lecture notes in computer science  
Number in series
7759 LNCS
Start Page
179
End Page
190
Citation
International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2012)
Contribution to Conference
International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, ICSOC 2012  
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-37804-1_19
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84892947577
Resource-intensive tasks are playing an increasing role in business processes. The emergence of Cloud computing has enabled the deployment of such tasks onto resources sourced on-demand from Cloud providers. This has enabled so-called elastic processes that are able to dynamically adjust their resource usage to meet varying workloads. Traditional Business Process Management Systems (BPMSs) do not consider the needs of elastic processes such as monitoring facilities, tracking the current and future system landscape, reasoning about optimally utilizing resources given Quality of Service constraints, and executing necessary actions (e.g., start/stop servers, move services). This paper introduces ViePEP, a research BPMS capable of handling the aforementioned requirements of elastic processes. © Springer-Verlag 2013.