Querying and integrating sources of structured data from the Web in most cases requires similarity-based concepts to deal with data level conflicts. This is due to the often errone...
CoMex (Coordination Mechanism) is a system to coordinate the execution of tasks accessing coordinable entities. It uses coordination rules to describe the temporal and logical orde...
This paper calls for a re-specification of IT systems design and development practice as corealisation. Co-realisation is an orientation to technology production that develops out...
Mark Hartswood, Rob Procter, Roger Slack, Alex Vos...
The tendency for Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) to have a wide-ranging impact on a software system, and the strong interdependencies and tradeoffs that exist between NFRs and ...
Distributed applications are based on algorithms which should be able to deal with time constraints. It is mandatory to express time constraints in (mathematical) models and the cu...