An approach for capacity planning of web service workflows

Publikationstyp
Conference Paper
Date Issued
2007-08-01
Sprache
English
Author(s)
Eckert, Julian  
Repp, Nicolas  
Schulte, Stefan  
Berbner, Rainer  
Steinmetz, Ralf  
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/11915
Volume
5
Start Page
3087
End Page
3094
Citation
13th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2007)
Contribution to Conference
13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2007  
Scopus ID
2-s2.0-84870201931
Business process management and business process optimization gain more and more importance in recent years. Companies have to meet customer expectations and control IT costs to stay competitive. For this, flexible and agile business processes, efficiently supported by IT systems are crucial. Web Services as an upcoming technology become more and more important establishing cross-organizational workflows. Due to a large amount of incoming requests, it is crucial to plan the workflow control. Furthermore, the resource usage has to be addressed in order to support scalability. Thus, capacity planning mechanisms are crucial for adapting a workflow to the real behavior ensuring that its execution remains feasible and SLA violations due to overload are avoided. Capacity planning requires among others a workload forecast as well as a workload modeling and analysis. Therefore, in this paper we present a holistic capacity planning and cost-effective approach for Web Service workflow parallelization and optimization.
Subjects
Business processes
Capacity planning
Service-oriented architecture
Web service
Workflows