State machines are considered a very general means of expressing computations in an implementation-independent way. There are also ways to extend the general state machine framewor...
Interoperability is a multifaceted problem caused by issues surpassing those of technological incompatibilities. The real interoperability challenges are stemming from various sour...
Over the last fifteen years, database management systems (DBMSs) have been enhanced by the addition of rule-based programming to obtain active DBMSs. One of the greatest challeng...
Business rules are an important element of information systems. The notion business rule encompasses different phenomena; therefore, some classification criteria are presented and...
Holger Herbst, Gerhard Knolmayer, Thomas Myrach, M...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...