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It is now well-admitted that formal methods are helpful for many issues raised in the Web service area. In this paper we present a framework for the design and verification of WSs using process algebras and their tools. We define a two-way…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Andrea Ferrara

We present CQELS 2.0, the second version of Continuous Query Evaluation over Linked Streams. CQELS 2.0 is a platform-agnostic federated execution framework towards semantic stream fusion. In this version, we introduce a novel…

In the world of Big Data analytics, there is a series of tools aiming at simplifying programming applications to be executed on clusters. Although each tool claims to provide better programming, data and execution models, for which only…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Claudia Misale , Maurizio Drocco , Marco Aldinucci , Guy Tremblay

Data sharing is central to a wide variety of applications such as fraud detection, ad matching, and research. The lack of data sharing abstractions makes the solution to each data sharing problem bespoke and cost-intensive, hampering value…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Siyuan Xia , Chris Zhu , Tapan Srivastava , Bridget Fahey , Raul Castro Fernandez

Process digitization and integration is an increasing need for enterprises, while cyber-attacks denote a growing threat. Using the Business Process Management Notation (BPMN) is common to handle the digital and integration focus within and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Simon Hacks , Robert Lagerström , Daniel Ritter

Large Language Model (LLM)-based agents demonstrate strong reasoning and execution capabilities on complex tasks when guided by structured instructions, commonly referred to as workflows. However, existing workflow-assisted agent serving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Ao Li , Shangpeng Yang , Fahao Chen , Tianheng Xu , Peng Li , Zhou Su

With the increasing importance of distributed scientific workflows, there is a critical need to ensure Quality of Service (QoS) constraints, such as minimizing time or limiting execution to resource subsets. However, the unpredictable…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Md Hasanur Rashid , Jesun Firoz , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Meng Tang , Dong Dai

Event definitions in Complex Event Processing systems are constrained by the expressiveness of each system's language. Some systems allow the definition of instantaneous complex events, while others allow the definition of durative complex…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Manolis Pitsikalis , Alexei Lisitsa , Shan Luo

IT Service Management deals with managing a broad range of items related to complex system environments. As there is both, a close connection to business interests and IT infrastructure, the application of semantic expressions which are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-12 Alexander Sellner , Christopher Schwarz , Erwin Zinser

Understanding procedural language requires anticipating the causal effects of actions, even when they are not explicitly stated. In this work, we introduce Neural Process Networks to understand procedural text through (neural) simulation of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Antoine Bosselut , Omer Levy , Ari Holtzman , Corin Ennis , Dieter Fox , Yejin Choi

The need for countering Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks has led to the solutions that ubiquitously monitor system activities in each enterprise host, and perform timely abnormal system behavior detection over the stream of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-02 Peng Gao , Xusheng Xiao , Ding Li , Kangkook Jee , Haifeng Chen , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , Prateek Mittal

In this paper, we address the challenges of managing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), which often suffer from inconsistencies in language, format, and execution, leading to operational inefficiencies. Traditional process modeling…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Deepeka Garg , Sihan Zeng , Sumitra Ganesh , Leo Ardon

The SPARQL query language is currently being extended by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) with so-called entailment regimes. An entailment regime defines how queries are evaluated under more expressive semantics than SPARQLs standard…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Ilianna Kollia , Birte Glimm

In this paper we propose a logic-based, framework inspired by artificial intelligence, but scaled down for practical database and programming applications. Computation in the framework is viewed as the task of generating a sequence of state…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-25 Robert Kowalski , Fariba Sadri

We describe an approach to modelling and reasoning about data-centric business processes and present a form of general model checking. Our technique extends existing approaches, which explore systems only from concrete initial states.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Andreas Bauer , Peter Baumgartner , Michael Norrish

In software system design, one of the purposes of diagrammatic modeling is to explain something (e.g., data tables) to others. Very often, syntax of diagrams is specified while the intended meaning of diagrammatic constructs remains…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Sabah Al-Fedaghi

Extracting structured procedural knowledge from unstructured business documents is a critical yet unresolved bottleneck in process automation. While prior work has focused on extracting linear action flows from instructional texts, such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chen Yang , Ruping Xu , Ruizhe Li , Bin Cao , Jing Fan

We present an ontology for representing workflows over components with Read-Write Linked Data interfaces and give an operational semantics to the ontology via a rule language. Workflow languages have been successfully applied for modelling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Tobias Käfer , Andreas Harth

We present Attentive Reasoning Queries (ARQs), a novel structured reasoning approach that significantly improves instruction-following in Large Language Models through domain-specialized reasoning blueprints. While LLMs demonstrate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Bar Karov , Dor Zohar , Yam Marcovitz

The advent of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly transformed tasks across Software Engineering. In the context of Business Process Management, LLMs are now being explored as tools to derive process models directly from textual…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Pedro-Aarón Hernández-Ávalos , Luciano García-Bañuelos