: Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the singl...
Rapid, yet methodical, systems of systems integration is in high demand. Application areas such as homeland security and disaster response add to the challenge because of a unique...
Google Maps and Google Earth are very popular web mapping services but they are not open and not OGC-compliant. The question arises why this is not the case. One reason is that com...
Distributed information systems for decision support and e-commerce applications require coordination of multiple autonomous components and their services to accomplish a set of g...
Independent from specific application domains, similar requirements can be identified regarding information needs during daily work. For coping with generality on the one hand an...