This paper proposes and evaluates a soft systems approach to design science research. Soft Design Science provides an approach to the development of new ways to improve human orga...
Richard Baskerville, Jan Pries-Heje, John R. Venab...
Standards-based COTS middleware has been shown to be effective in meeting a range of functional and QoS requirements for distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Each sta...
Christopher D. Gill, Venkita Subramonian, Jeff Par...
Flexible and distributed management systems based on mobile agents have certain advantages over centralized and static management architectures. However, security plays a decisive...
Organisations may wish to use a standards-defined distributed system in a global sense but also have a requirement for non-standard local behaviour. This reflects the production...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
In asynchronous event systems, the production of an event is decoupled from its consumption via an event queue. The loose coupling of such systems allows great flexibility as to ...