Achieving the best possible cost performance for a system is often the goal of the manager of that system. This is true for large systems (such as an entire railroad system) as we...
—The choices made by user in processing a set of documents is related, in a broad sense, to the sum of influences coming from the documents in the user situation, which does not...
We present a general methodology for integrating arbitrary security requirements in the development of business processes in a both elegant and rigorous way. We show how trust rela...
Abstract. Human action is goal-directed and must thus be guided by anticipations of wanted action effects. How anticipatory action control is possible and how it can emerge from ex...
Abstract. We develop an abstract operational model for configuration management under service-oriented computing. This semantics is based on a graph-based representation of the con...