Situational information can enrich the interactions between a user and the services they wish to utilize. Such information encompasses details about the user, the physical environ...
XML (Extensible Markup Language) processing can incur significant runtime overhead in XML-based infrastructural middleware such as Web service application servers. This paper prop...
Abstract. Control engineering is a field of major industrial importance as it offers principles for engineering controllable physical devices, such as cell phones, television sets,...
In a component-based system components are basic computation units implementing specific business functions, and their interactions are explicitly represented by connectors. If th...
: Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the singl...