How to enhance interoperability between stakeholders and improve efficiency of supply chain management is the key issue that needs to be addressed in automobile industry. Existing ...
Software engineers face a difficult task in managing the many different types of relationships that exist between the documents of a software development project. We refer to this...
The design of complex systems, e.g., telecom services, is nowadays usually based on the integration of components (COTS), loosely coupled in distributed architectures. When compon...
Mismatches in QoS (Quality of Service) often appears as a major but implicit hurdle to smooth component integration. This paper presents a solution to the above problem through pr...
A method for leveraging a communication protocol called Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) for workcell automation and integration is presented. By leveraging UPnP for automation equi...