It is widely recognized that the proliferation of annotation schemes runs counter to the need to re-use language resources, and that standards for linguistic annotation are becomi...
Given the importance of encapsulation to object-oriented programming, it is surprising to note that mainstream object-oriented languages offer only limited and fixed ways of enca...
One of the major advantages of component-based software engineering is the ability for developers to reuse and assemble software entities to build complex software. Whereas decompo...
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The use of different High-level Petri net formalisms has made it possible to create Petri net models of large systems. Even though the use of such models allows the modeller to cr...
Service level agreements (SLAs) impose many nonfunctional requirements on services. Business analysts specify and check these requirements in business process models using tools s...
Hua Xiao, Brian Chan, Ying Zou, Jay W. Benayon, Bi...