SITIO: semantic business processes based on software-as-a-service and cloud computing

  • Authors:
  • Francisco Garcia-Sanchez;Eneko Fernandez-Breis;Rafael Valencia-Garcia;Enrique Jimenez;Juan M. Gomez;Javier Torres-Niño;Daniel Martinez-Maqueda

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informatica, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain;Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informatica, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain;Universidad de Murcia, Facultad de Informatica, Espinardo, Murcia, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Computer Science Department, Leganes, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Computer Science Department, Leganes, Madrid, Spain;Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Computer Science Department, Leganes, Madrid, Spain;Indra Software Labs, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • E-ACTIVITIES'09/ISP'09 Proceedings of the 8th WSEAS International Conference on E-Activities and information security and privacy
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Recently, the economy has taken a downturn, which has forced many companies to reduce their costs in IT. According to experts, one interesting approach could be to outsource parts of their business through third parties. This will allow companies to free resources invested in outsourced business processes and to focus their investments on those processes that are unique to the organization. The future Internet will be based on services and this new trend will have significant impact on domains such as e-Science, education and e-Commerce. Recently, SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) has emerged as a model of software deployment suitable for implementing this new service-oriented strategy. However, there are few academic works in this area and many gaps are still open. In this paper, we present a Business Process based on Semantics platform where services are executed from a SaaS perspective. The SITIO platform allows external developers to create add-on applications that integrate into the main SITIO application and are hosted on Cloud Computing infrastructure.