In the US continued and increased issuance of software and business method patents is criticized by many. Some argue that software and business method patents do not stimulate inn...
As supply chains evolve beyond the confines of individual organizations, collaboration has become the Holy Grail in supply chain technology. It plays a key role in achieving flexi...
Experiences with the use of the MSC language for complex system specifications have shown that certain extensions are necessary in order to arrive at sufficiently transparent and m...
We study leading-edge local search heuristics for balanced hypergraph partitioning and Boolean satisfiability, intending the generalization of such heuristics beyond their origina...
Abstract. This paper considers the use of a state-of-the-art, generalpurpose, component programming language, specifically ArchJava, to implement software product lines. Component ...