As web information systems tend to mature it has become increasingly important to have an engineered design of such systems. Hera is a design methodology that supports the develop...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, ...
Web services have a potential to enhance B2B ecommerce over the Internet by allowing companies and organizations to publish their business processes on service directories where p...
Andreas Wombacher, Peter Fankhauser, Bendick Mahle...
This paper introduces a formal theory for describing actions in terminological knowledge bases, closely related to description logics. It deals in particular with the problem of ad...
Probabilistic timed automata, a variant of timed automata extended with discrete probability distributions, is a specification formalism suitable for describing both nondeterminis...
Marta Z. Kwiatkowska, Gethin Norman, David Parker,...
PC grids represent massive computation capacity at a low cost, but are challenging to employ for parallel computing because of variable and unpredictable performance and availabili...
Nagarajan Kanna, Jaspal Subhlok, Edgar Gabriel, Es...