The development of complex systems invariably involves many stakeholders who have different perspectives on the problem they are addressing, the system being developed, and the pr...
The design and maintenance of ontologies is a complex social collaborative activity, and this is true especially for semantic-web ontologies. On the one hand, such activity calls ...
Aldo Gangemi, Jos Lehmann, Valentina Presutti, Mal...
Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
Runtime adaptation is recognized as a viable way for a serviceoriented system to meet QoS requirements in its volatile operating environment. In this paper we propose a methodolog...
: Conceptual modelling is a widely applied practice and has led to a large body of knowledge on constructs that might be used for modelling and on methods that might be useful for ...