This paper introduces declarative event patterns (DEPs) as a means to implement protocols while improving their traceability, comprehensibility, and maintainability. DEPs are desc...
Abstract: Contemporary business applications often employ a process layer in order to coordinate automated activities. One option to build such a layer is to use a workflow manage...
Stefan Kleine Stegemann, Burkhardt Funk, Thomas Sl...
Potentially one of the most significant opportunities for enterprise integration is the recent development and advancement of agent based systems. However, before agents can be us...
Elizabeth A. Kendall, Margaret T. Malkoun, Chong H...
Requirement engineering (RE) is emerging as an increasingly important discipline for supporting Web application development, as these are designed to satisfy diverse stakeholder n...
A pattern is a common solution to a problem that occurs in many different contexts. Patterns capture expert knowledge about “best practices” in software design in a form that ...