: Today, electronic cross-company collaboration is about to gain significant momentum, but still shows weaknesses with respect to productivity, flexibility and quality: A lack of s...
Although conceived for web services, it is shown how BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) can be used to orchestrate a collection of grid services. This is achieved using th...
The international business environment of port logistics has changed drastically in the last few decades. The increase in international trade, advent of ultra-large vessels, chang...
Web-based applications are typically required to be highly customizable and configurable. New application requirements have to be introduced rapidly, often without stopping the ru...
: The increasing intensity of global competition and the rapid advances in information technology (IT) have led organisations to search for more efficient and effective ways to man...