Current composite web service development and management solutions, e.g. BPEL, do not cater for assessing and maintaining comparability of business partners during business collab...
The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
We seek to facilitate development of high quality software designs and architectures by using rigorous process definitions to guide application of the complex structure of relati...
Traditional DBMSs decouple statistics collection and query optimization both in space and time. Decoupling in time may lead to outdated statistics. Decoupling in space may cause s...
Amr El-Helw, Ihab F. Ilyas, Wing Lau, Volker Markl...
Software systems have to be changed continuously and evolutionarily throughout the whole time of their development and usage. Meanwhile, the software systems have to remain flexi...