The ad-hoc use of unions to encode disjoint sum types in C programs and the inability of C’s type system to check the safe use of these unions is a long standing source of subtle...
: In modern organisations the monolithic information systems of the past are being gradually replaced by networked systems, enabling distributed computing often based on multi-agen...
With current trends towards moving variability from hardware to software, and given the increasing desire to postpone design decisions as much as is economically feasible, managin...
Rabih Bashroush, Ivor T. A. Spence, Peter Kilpatri...
This paper presents the design of a business-aligned information system (IS) from an actor-network perspective, viewing non-human intermediaries jointly as inscriptions and bounda...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...