Collaborative software development is nowadays inconceivable without optimistic version control systems (VCSs). Without such systems the parallel modification of one artifact by m...
Ontology has been widely adopted as the basis of knowledge sharing and knowledge-based public services. However, ontology construction is a big challenge, especially in collaborati...
Previous work has found that (a) when software is developed collaboratively, concurrent accesses to related pieces of code are made, and (b) when these accesses are coordinated asy...
Policy conflict analysis processes based solely on the examination of policy language constructs can not readily discern the semantics associated with the managed system for which ...
The development of collaborative environments that not only manage information and communication, but also support the actual work processes of organisations is very important. XML...