Matthias Kunze Universität Potsdam, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Straße 2-3, 14482 Potsdam, Germany matthias.kunze@hpi.uni-potsdam.de Copyright •c 2014 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Copying permitted only for private and academic purposes. This volume is published and copyrighted by its editors. In February 2014, we had the pleasure to host the 6th edition of the Central European Workshop on Services and their Composition (ZEUS) in Potsdam. This successful workshops series o ers young research talents the chance to present and discuss early ideas and incomplete results, and to establish contacts between young researchers. 29 researchers and practitioners from Austria and Germany joined the workshop and contributed to the discussions of the presented work.
From all submissions, we selected 13 papers for the workshop program and proceedings. The program committee that evaluated all submissions for their relevance and scientific quality consisted of members of academia and industry. The accepted papers focused on topics in the area of Business Process Management and Service-oriented Computing, in particular process analysis, process modeling and improvement, flexible processes, process execution, and process data.
The workshop program has been completed by a keynote given by Ulf Leser from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, entitled “Research Opportunities in Scientific Workflows”. Ulf Leser elaborated on the challenges of handling enormous amounts of data that are processed in scientific workflows. He pointed out that the rapid evolution of processing units requires flexible and robust execution environments.
Nico Herzberg
Matthias Kunze
ZEUS 2014 is organized by the Business Process Technology group at the Hasso Plattner Institute (University of Potsdam), Potsdam, Germany.
Oliver Kopp Niels Lohmann Karsten Wolf
Rafael Accorsi Stefan Appel Anne Baumgraß Dirk Fahland Christian Gierds Georg Grossmann Thomas Heinze Nico Herzberg Meiko Jensen
Tobias Binz Uwe Breitenbücher Katharina Görlach Christoph Gröger Sebastian Wagner
Imperial College London, United Kingdom Vienna University of Technology, Austria