Abstract. For organizations to flourish in a changing environment, their business processes need to be flexible. Designing flexible business processes is a challenge. We use Weick&...
Service-orientation is not only a means for systems integration, but also an architecture paradigm for building systems. Flexibility, adaptability and interoperability are some of...
A limiting factor in the industrial acceptance of formal specifications is their readability, particularly for large, complex engineering systems. We hypothesize that multiple vis...
Nicolas Dulac, Thomas Viguier, Nancy G. Leveson, M...
We present the design and implementation of a working prototype system that enables self-configuration in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) by exploiting context awareness and cross-...
The large unstructured text collections demand full-text search capabilities from IR systems. Current systems typically allow users only to connect to a single database (or site) ...