The robustness of a system is a property that pervades all aspects of Nature. The ability of a system to adapt itself to perturbations due to internal and external agents, to agin...
The management of non-functional goals, or Service Level Agreements (SLA), in the development of business processes in a Service Oriented Architecture often requires much manual a...
Vinod Muthusamy, Hans-Arno Jacobsen, Phil Coulthar...
This paper addresses software adaptation to context of use. It goes one step further than our early work on plasticity [5]. Here, we propose a revision of the notion of software pl...
In this paper we will concentrate on the conceptual modeling and semantics of service delegation and alignment in information systems. In delegation, one typically has the situatio...
Herman Balsters, G. B. Huitema, Nicolae B. Szirbik
There is a manifold of meanings we could associate with the term \evolution" in the database arena. This paper tries to categorize some of these into a unique framework, showi...