Portlets strive to play at the front end the same role that Web services currently enjoy at the back end, namely, enablers of application assembly through reusable services. Howev...
Engineering design increasingly uses computer simulation models coupled with optimization algorithms to find the best design that meets the customer constraints within a time con...
Model-driven engineering is at the forefront among recent attempts to information systems development. Models are gradually refined from domain specific descriptions to more concre...
Christian Flender, Thomas Hettel, Michael Lawley, ...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...
Behavioural protocols are beneficial to Component-Based Software Engineering and Service-Oriented Computing as they foster automatic procedures for discovery, composition, composi...