Discrete-event simulation is an established tool for the design and management of large-scale mail sortation and distribution systems. Because the design of distribution facilitie...
K. Preston White, Brian Barney, Scott Keller, Robe...
In the Design By Contract (DBC) approach, programmers specify methods with pre and postconditions (also called contracts). Earlier work added protocols to the DBC approach to desc...
The central idea in reference modeling is the reutilization of the business knowledge contained in reference models for the construction of specific information models. The orient...
Aspects that trigger on a sequence of join points instead of on a single join point are not explicitly supported in current AspectOriented approaches. Explicit protocols are howeve...
Abstract—One of the key concepts of service-oriented computing is dynamic binding which favors on-demand integration of services into a running system. Companies can outsource ta...