BPM in Cloud Architectures: Business Process Management with SLAs and Events

Applications are becoming increasingly distributed and loosely coupled in terms of their development processes, software architectures, deployment platforms, and other aspects. For example, inWeb mashups [12,13], utility or cloud computing environments [2,3], and service-oriented architectures (SOA) [4,10] applications are developed by orchestrating reusable services using high level workflows or business processes. Application developers, however, must navigate a complex ecosystem that includes the services they depend on, the execution platforms of their applications and services, and the users of these applications, none of which they have much control over.