A new discipline, Usability Design, is proposed as an extension to Rational Unified Process (RUP). The aim is to make RUP more user-centred. The discipline springs out of best prac...
The notion of supply chains has been current for some time in the literature and in practice. Recently this has been extended to consider so-called extended enterprises. The paper...
Applications of telecommunications and information technologies impact many areas of life. Especially telework is an application area, which still possesses a large growth potenti...
In this paper I examine what industry really needs from formal specification techniques. I first describe the background to our use of formal techniques. I then look at the role o...
An approach and mechanismto support the sharing of behavior amongthe component database systems in a federation is described. In the context of a functional object-based database ...