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Business processes have to be enacted with increasing numbers of instances and under a growing pressure to reduce the cost of process enactment. Cloud computing provides scalable computing resources as utility at low cost. Therefore, this paper introduces service systems as new, cloud-based architecture for the scalable and flexible enactment of business processes.
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Schmidt, R. (2012). Scalable Business Process Enactment in Cloud Environments. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_1
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