Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...
The web is more and more used as a platform for fullfledged, increasingly complex applications, where a huge amount of change-intensive data is managed by underlying database syst...
Gerti Kappel, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwi...
In business today, re-engineering has taken a great deal of the cost out of internal corporate processes. Our factories and internal support organizations have become much more ef...
Reuse is an important means of reducing costs and effort during the development of complex software systems. A major challenge is to find suitable components in a large library wit...
Matthias Schmidt, Jan Polowinski, Jendrik Johannes...
This paper studies a new generalization of the regular permutation flowshop scheduling problem (PFSP) referred to as the distributed permutation flowshop scheduling problem or DPF...