This paper describes an exploratory field study on the adoption of Application Service Provisioning (ASP) in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs). Rooted in Merton’s Motiva...
It is advocated to use the ISO/IEC 15504 standard into new domains not related to Information Technology (IT), giving a powerful enterprise-wide assessment tool for quality manager...
In this paper, we propose an active grid resource management system supported by active networks for computational grid. First, we construct a scalable two-level resource managemen...
Digital Libraries can be considered islands of specialized collections on the Web, which have their own management policy to control publishing and access, offering an environment...
We consider a set of views stating possibly conflicting facts. Negative facts in the views may come, e.g., from functional dependencies in the underlying database schema. We want ...