According to transaction cost economics, contracts are always incomplete and offer opportunities to defect. Some level of trust is a sine qua non for trade. If the seller is better...
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaa...
Visual compliance has emerged as a new paradigm to ensure that employees comply with processes and policies in a business context [1]. In this paper, we focus on videos from retai...
Component-based software development needs to formalize a process of generation, evaluation and selection of Composite COTS-based Software Systems (CCSS), enabling software archit...
This paper discusses our experience in building SPIRE, an autonomic system for service provision. The architecture consists of a set of hosted Web Services subject to QoS constrain...
Running in a highly uncertain and changing environment, Web systems cannot always provide full set of services with optimal quality, especially when the workload is high or failur...