Column-store database systems open new vistas for improved maintenance through self-organization. Individual columns are the focal point, which simplify balancing conflicting requ...
Existing organisational centred multi-agent systems regulate agents' activities. However, population/environmental changes may lead to a poor fullment of system's goals,...
Despite the increasing availability of groupware, most systems are awkward and not widely used. While there are many reasons for this, a significant problem is that groupware is di...
Many researchers throughout the world have been struggling to better understand and describe Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs). Our knowledge of the real forces and mechanisms b...
Refactoring of software systems represents an fundamental way of improving their quality properties. Large-scale refactoring has to be performed at an architectural level to execu...