In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in ...
Service composition is gaining momentum as the potential silver bullet for the envisioned Semantic Web. It purports to take the Web to unexplored efficiencies and provide a flexibl...
Brahim Medjahed, Athman Bouguettaya, Ahmed K. Elma...
The event-condition-action paradigm (also known as triggers or ECA rules) gives a database “active” capabilities – the ability to react automatically to changes in the databa...
The problem of designing suitable conceptual modeling languages for system engineering is far from being solved. In the past years, some works have proposed the use of foundational...
This paper discusses the design and implementation of ESSPL, an expert system which generates security plans for alarm systems (Figure 1). Security planning is the task of determi...