Wei Tan & MengChu Zhou 
Business and Scientific Workflows 
A Web Service-Oriented Approach

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).

About the author

WEI TAN, Ph D, is currently a Research Staff Member at
IBM’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received a Best Paper
Award from the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing
(2011), a Pacesetter Award from Argonne National Laboratory (2010),
and ca BIG Teamwork Award from the National Cancer Institute
(2008).

MENGCHU ZHOU, Ph D, is a Professor of Electrical and
Computer Engineering and Director of the Discrete Event Systems
Laboratory at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He is
also a Professor at The Key Laboratory of Embedded System and
Service Computing, Ministry of Education, Tongji University,
Shanghai, China.