A coherent description of architectures provides insight, enables communication among different stakeholders and guides complicated (business and ICT) change processes. Unfortunat...
Component-Based Software Engineering, Separation of Concerns, Model-Driven Architecture, and Aspect-Oriented Programming are four active research areas that have been around for s...
Today’s autonomous and heterogeneous information systems have an increasing necessity of exchanging data. As widely known, middleware systems have been successfully adopted as i...
One of the most significant limitations of current middleware platforms, both commercial and research, is that they typically support only a small, pre-defined, set of fundamental...
Nikos Parlavantzas, Geoff Coulson, Gordon S. Blair
– An important problem in designing infrastructure to support business-to-business integration (B2Bi) is how to cancel a long-running interaction (either because the user has cha...
Paul Greenfield, Alan Fekete, Julian Jang, Dean Ku...
Large-scale information processing environments must rapidly search through massive streams of raw data to locate useful information. These data streams contain textual and numeri...
Ian Gorton, Justin Almquist, Nick Cramer, Jereme H...
The MOF Query, View and Transformation RFP, issued by OMG will result in a key enabling technology for modeldriven development of large distributed systems. We have designed a tra...
Keith Duddy, Anna Gerber, Michael Lawley, Kerry Ra...
The expression of contracts in computer readable form, and the development of automated tests for completeness and well-formedness of contracts, has opened the door to significant...
In this paper we sketch a framework supporting contract enactment within the context of virtual organisation units that are dynamically created in order to achieve a common object...
Theodosis Dimitrakos, Ivan Djordjevic, Zoran Milos...