As a platform-independent solution, XML is going to be used in many environments such as application integration and Web Services. Security of XML instance is a basic problem, esp...
During the last decade, teams working on information technology (IT) development and implementation projects have experienced significant transformations. Nowadays, many members o...
or cone, abstraction is chosen to represent a spectrum of user inputs/requirements that are narrowed, refined, and structured into a system design. User inputs require refinement f...
K. Suzanne Barber, Thomas J. Graser, Paul Grisham,...
Appointment scheduling is a problem faced daily by many individuals and organizations. Cooperating agent systems have been developed to partially automate this task. In order to e...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...