The EC funded COMBINE Project has the objective of dramatically improving software development productivity by providing a holistic approach to component-based development of Ente...
Sandy Tyndale-Biscoe, Oliver Sims, Bryan Wood, Chr...
For the majority of front-end e-business systems, the assumption of a coherent and homogeneous set of interfaces is highly unrealistic. Problems start in the back-end, with system...
Giacomo Piccinelli, Wolfgang Emmerich, Christian Z...
The Object Management Group (OMG) is pursuing its new Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) strategy. The Meta-Object Facility (MOF) is an important technology to support the MDA, both ...
Continuous change of user requirements has become a constant for geo-information systems. Designing systems that can adapt to such changes requires an appropriate ethodology that ...
As in traditional commerce, parties to a contract in ebusiness environments are expected to operate in good faith and comply with mutually agreed terms of contract. It may be the ...
This paper addresses the problem of transforming natural language descriptions of contracts into a form that is suitable for automating various contract management functions. We i...
Inter-organisational applications require improved support from middleware services. This paper analyses the management requirements of multidomain applications, covering both tec...
In this paper, we present a constraint-based approach for selecting and deploying active network components, called proxylets, which execute on servers within the network to perfo...
Collaborations (between objects) are increasingly being recognized as fundamental building blocks to structure object-oriented design, and they have made their way into UML. But v...