Abstract. The configuration of Web services is particularly hard given the heterogeneous, unreliable and open nature of the Web. Furthermore, such composite Web services are likely...
Annette ten Teije, Frank van Harmelen, Bob J. Wiel...
Field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and Sony's PlayStation 2 vector units offer scope for hardware acceleration of applications. We compa...
Lee W. Howes, Paul Price, Oskar Mencer, Olav Beckm...
The fundamental goal of all good design and engineering is to create maximal value added for any given investment. There are many dimensions in which value can be assessed, from m...
Methods for enterprise architecture, such as TOGAF, acknowledge the importance of requirements engineering in the development of enterprise architectures. Modelling support is nee...
Dick A. C. Quartel, Wilco Engelsman, Henk Jonkers,...
Game developers are faced with the difficult task of creating non-player characters with convincing behavior. This commonly involves an exhaustive specification of their actions i...