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Introducing enterprise information systems (EIS) is usually associated with high costs. It is therefore crucial to understand those factors that determine or influence these costs...
In today’s complex and highly dynamic computing environments, systems/services have to be constantly adjusted to meet Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and to improve resource uti...
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The construction and maintenance of large and complex software systems depend on the existence of global principles describing the structure and the interaction among its various ...