The interface definition of a component in a distributed system forms the contract between the component itself and its neighbouring components regarding the use of its services....
Once the decision to outsource an activity has been made, managers are faced with issues related to the management of the relationship with their service providers. A critical ele...
Benoit Aubert, Jean-Francois Houde, Michel Patry, ...
The increasing complexity of products and services encourages more and more companies to form collaborative networks. As these companies are independent organizations there is oft...
Motivated by the need to extend features of semantic matchmaking between request and offer descriptions, a model is presented that exploits recently proposed non-standard inference...
Tommaso Di Noia, Eugenio Di Sciascio, Francesco M....
This paper presents an architectural study of a scalable system-level interconnection template. We explain why the shared bus, which is today's dominant template, will not me...