The coordination of concurrent activities in collaborative environments is a very important and difficult task. Many approaches for the construction of large-scale flexible grou...
Paola Inverardi, Massimo Tivoli, Antonio Bucchiaro...
This report summarizes presentations and discussions of the IEEE WETICE 2003 Workshop on Knowledge Management for Distributed Agile Processes. The main goals of the workshop were ...
In addition to producing a pervasive standard and a technology framework, the Web Service initiative has prompted businesses to re-examine their service delivery channels. Back-en...
Clare Gryce, Giacomo Piccinelli, Christian Zirpins
A formal approach to security in the software life cycle is essential to protect corporate resources. However, little thought has been given to this aspect of software development...
David P. Gilliam, Thomas L. Wolfe, Joseph S. Sheri...
Computer science and engineering nowadays appears to be challenged (and driven) by technological progress and quantitative growth. Among the technological progress challenges are ...
Recent advances in networking technology have increased the potential for dynamic enterprise collaborations between an open set of entities on a global scale. The security of thes...
Colin English, Sotirios Terzis, Waleed Wagealla, H...
Knowledge-intensive activities can typically not be modeled sufficiently by classical, static process models and workflows. To enable a process-oriented knowledge management appro...
Ludger van Elst, Felix-Robinson Aschoff, Ansgar Be...
Web Services define a new paradigm in present-day collaborative application development in enterprises, and span systems, networks, and organizations. Emerging computing infrastru...
We try to analyze a generic model for 2-tier distributed systems, exploring the possibility of optimal cluster sizes from an information management perspective, such that the over...
Role-based access control has been a focal area for many security researchers over the last decade. There have been a large number of models, and many rich specification language...