Conceptual modelling is thought (by academics at least) to be a key activity of Business Systems Analysis. For decades, comprehensive research has been conducted on related topics ...
We define a Mobile Database Community (MDBC) as a dynamic collection of autonomous mobile databases in which each database user can access databases in the community through a wir...
Abstract Information agents are cooperative agents whose main goal is to collaborate and assist task agents like mobile agents in obtaining information from heterogeneous data sour...
Lito Perez Cruz, Arkady B. Zaslavsky, David Squire
This paper presents an algorithm for termination static analysis of active rules with priorities. Active rules termination is an undecidable problem. Several recent works have sugg...
Abstract. In this article we report our experience on building a contextual application with two different middlewares: the Context Toolkit from Georgia Tech and the Coordination L...
Abstract. Flexibility to react on rapidly changing general conditions of the environment has become a key factor for economic success of any company. The competitiveness of an ente...
The unique selling point of XML as standard representation of content is its ease of use thus facilitating interoperability between various partners and platforms. To overcome XML ...
This paper presents a software framework, called Collaborator, to provide a shared work-space supporting the activities of virtual teams. This system exploits seamless integration ...
In this paper we discuss how the concept of ontology can be beneficial for the authoring support of Web-based educational systems (WBES). We take a semantic perspective on the know...
Abstract. We motivate, discuss and present extensions to architecture modelling techniques through which business systems can support services and applications that are location an...