A model for reference use in communication is proposed, from a representationist point of view. Both the sender and the receiver of a message handle representations of their commo...
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing in a highly distribut...
Current object-oriented formalisms, such as UML, focus on describing class models and use instance models only for depicting scenarios. Little attention is being devoted to defini...
Although simulation is one of the most innovative and cost-effective tools for modeling and analyzing a system, simulation studies often fail to provide any useful results. One re...
Abstract. The conceptual modelling of software architectures is of central importance for the quality of a software system. A rich modelling language is required to integrate the d...