The pressures which act on a software system over its life from inception to retirement are many and varied. It is an important goal in considering software evolvability to unders...
Natural eye designs are optimized with regard to the tasks the eye-carrying organism has to perform for survival. This optimization has been performed by the process of natural ev...
Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
In this paper we consider the problem of a firm that faces a stochastic (Poisson) demand and must replenish from a market in which prices fluctuate, such as a commodity market. ...
Advanced Business Process Management (BPM) tools enable the decomposition of previously integrated and often ill-defined processes into reusable process modules. These process modu...