An increasing number of business users and software applications need to process information that is accessible via multiple diverse information systems, such as database systems,...
This paper describes the use of executable specifications to ease incremental development, by providing more flexibility regarding the order in which modules are implemented. In t...
Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and mostly rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for context-awareness. This architecture ...
Nicolas Ferry, Stephane Lavirotte, Jean-Yves Tigli...
sents some concluding remarks and discusses future work. This paper considers the problem of integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components into systems with high ...
Paulo Asterio de Castro Guerra, Alexander B. Roman...
In recent years, many Mobile Payment (MP) schemes have been proposed and used in practise. However, a prerequisite for extended acceptance and adoption of MP technologies is to de...