New challenging deployment scenarios are accommodating portable devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities that roam among wireless access localities during service provi...
The Web frequently suffers from failures which affect the performance and consistency of applications run over it. An important fault-tolerance technique is the use of atomic tran...
A common and difficult maintenance activity is the integration of existing software components or tools into a consistent and interoperable whole. One area in which this has prov...
Applications are often designed to take advantage of the potential for integration with each other via shared information. Current approaches for integration are limited, affectin...
Process support environments (PSEs) are widely used for modelling, enacting and analyzing human intensive processes. The benefits of a PSE become apparent when processes to be supp...