Network-centricity is a concept under consideration as a useful paradigm for complex organizational operations, combining the strengths of bureaucracy with the innovative possibil...
The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
We present a new approach for the management and enactment of deployment process by a deployment processor ORYA (Open enviRonment to deploY Applications). ORYA aims to integrate te...
While database management systems offer a comprehensive solution to data storage, they require deep knowledge of the schema, as well as the data manipulation language, in order to...
The persistent programming systems of the 1980s offered a programming model that integrated computation and long-term storage. In these systems, reliable applications could be eng...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...