A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
We explore join optimizations in the presence of both timebased constraints (sliding windows) and value-based constraints (punctuations). We present the first join solution named...
Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
We argue that certain theoretical commitments that underpin much existing Interorganisational Information Systems (IOIS) research at small scales become untenable when IOIS are st...
In this paper, we describe a security model where users are allowed to control their obligations partially or totally, depending on the security policy. The main motivation of our...