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VL
2005
IEEE
159views Visual Languages» more  VL 2005»
14 years 2 months ago
Executable Visual Contracts
Design by Contract (DbC) is widely acknowledged to be a powerful technique for creating reliable software. DbC allows developers to specify the behavior of an operation precisely ...
Marc Lohmann, Stefan Sauer, Gregor Engels
AGILEDC
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Making Agile Development Work in a Government Contracting Environment - Measuring velocity with Earned Value
: Before any of the current “agile” development methods, Earned Value Management provided information for planning and controlling complex projects by measuring how much “val...
Glen B. Alleman, Michael Henderson, Ray Seggelke
ISDO
2000
194views Business» more  ISDO 2000»
13 years 10 months ago
Contract-Based Transaction Management in Cross-Organizational Workflow Management
Cross-organizational workflow management is an essential ingredient for process integration in virtual enterprises. To obtain cross-organizational workflow processes with robust s...
Paul W. P. J. Grefen
IWPSE
2003
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Using Coordination Contracts for Flexible Adaptation to Changing Business Rules
This paper reports on the use of coordination contracts, presented at the previous two IWPSE workshops, in a project for a credit recovery company. We have designed and implemente...
Michel Wermelinger, Georgios Koutsoukos, Richard A...
WINE
2009
Springer
178views Economy» more  WINE 2009»
14 years 3 months ago
Computing Optimal Contracts in Series-Parallel Heterogeneous Combinatorial Agencies
We study an economic setting in which a principal motivates a team of strategic agents to exert costly effort toward the success of a joint project. The action taken by each agent...
Yuval Emek, Michal Feldman