Software development techniques are continuously evolving with the goal of solving the main problems that still affect the building and maintenance of software systems: time, cost...
—The topic of policy-based management is introduced. Its specific application by the ACCENT project to call control is then discussed. The APPEL policy language supports regular ...
Comprehensive semantic descriptions of Web services are essential to exploit them in their full potential, that is, discovering them dynamically, and enabling automated service ne...
Environmental databases store a wide variety of data from heterogeneous sources which are described with domain-specific terminologies and refer to distinct locations. In order to ...
A software product line (SPL) is a family of related program variants in a well-defined domain, generated from a set of features. A fundamental difference from classical applicati...