There are different strategies to integrate software systems: integration on the data layer, on the business logic layer, and on the user interface layer. The latter area, recent...
In this paper, we examine the special requirements of lifecycle management for entities in the context of an entity management system for the semantic web. We study the requirement...
Abstract. Models have been playing a major role in information system engineering and interoperability: in this paper, we put an emphasis on the complementary role of metamodels. M...
With the increased popularity of replica-based services in distributed systems such as the Grid, consistency control among replicas becomes more and more important. To this end, I...
The latest communication technologies invariably consist of modules with dynamic behavior. There exists a number of design tools for communication system design with their foundat...