This paper builds on ideas in a recent paper which argued that the core subject matter of the IS field should not be “the IT artifact” (as suggested by Orlikowski and Iacono [...
Failure models characterise the expected component failures in fault-tolerant computing. In the context of distributed systems, a failure model usually consists of two parts: a fu...
Timo Warns, Felix C. Freiling, Wilhelm Hasselbring
Temporal data models have been used to describe how data can evolve in the context of temporal databases. Both the Extended Entity-Relationship (EER) model and the Unified Modelli...
Alessandro Artale, Roman Kontchakov, Vladislav Ryz...
We describe a platform for context-aware computing which enables applications to follow mobile users as they move around a building. The platform is particularly suitable for rich...
Andy Harter, Andy Hopper, Pete Steggles, Andy Ward...
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has defined Quality Management, but it has not yet adopted standards for developing Quality Management Systems (QMSs), nota...