In this article we describe two core ontologies of law that specify knowledge that is common to all domains of law. The first one, FOLaw describes and explains dependencies between...
Incorporating components from a number of different sources into a given application is generally considered to be a non-trivial activity. Over the years, various coordination mec...
Abstract—Stakeholders from several domains with local terminologies have to work together to develop and operate softwareintensive systems, like production automation systems. On...
Object-oriented languages such as Java, Smalltalk, and C++ structure their programs using packages, allowing classes to be organized into named abstractions. Maintainers of large ...
Building open distributed systems is an even more challenging task than building distributed systems, as their components are loosely synchronised, can move, become disconnected, ...