Model-driven engineering is at the forefront among recent attempts to information systems development. Models are gradually refined from domain specific descriptions to more concre...
Christian Flender, Thomas Hettel, Michael Lawley, ...
Abstract: This paper addresses the problem of expressing preferences among nonfunctional properties of services in a Web service architecture. In such a context, semantic and non-f...
—Highways are an essential component of our society because they are critical to quality of life and to local and national economies. Under good conditions, highways provide a sa...
Liviu Iftode, Stephen Smaldone, Mario Gerla, James...
This paper is about business modelling and negotiation protocol design in distributed scheduling, where individual agents have individual (potentially conflicting) interests. It i...
Edward P. K. Tsang, Timothy Gosling, Botond Virgin...
Communities of practice are not a new idea, but they are being looked at more closely as an important tool for learning and mastering knowledge challenges. Communities of practice...