It is common to imbed business rules within the code of distributed object systems. When business practices and/or policies change, as they often do, it is difficult if not imposs...
Isabelle Rouvellou, Lou Degenaro, Kevin Rasmus, Da...
This paper reports on research-in-progress designed to understand adoption and diffusion of e-learning (EL) among small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in northern Italy. The ...
This paper investigates the methodological foundations of a new research field called chance discovery which aims to detect future opportunities and risks. By drawing on concepts...
Companies cooperating in the framework of a virtual enterprise have increasing demands for systems on which to base applications for their particular environment: groups of worker...
The focus of this paper are actions in which agents employ instruments in order to achieve desired outcomes. I explore the ontological structure of such actions and the semantic fe...