The decision of whether to manufacture products within the US, manufacture internationally or to outsource production depends critically upon a thorough understanding of the costs...
Joseph C. Hartman, Stephen L. Liedtka, Lawrence V....
We are interested in specifying functional dependencies (FDs) for data-centric XML documents (XML documents that are used mainly for data storage). FDs are a natural constraint. S...
As the number of available Web services increases there is a growing demand to realise complex business processes by combining and reusing available Web services. In this context,...
Strategies are a powerful mechanism to control rule application in rule-based systems. For instance, different transition relations can be defined and then combined by means of ...
Model is a kind of codified knowledge that has been verified in solving problems. Solving a complex problem usually needs a set of models. Using components, the composition of a s...