—Collaborative mechanisms between services are a crucial aspect in the recent development of pervasive computing systems based on the paradigm of service-oriented architecture. C...
—In this paper we present a compositional and dynamic model for face aging. The compositional model represents faces in each age group by a hierarchical And-Or graph, in which An...
Jin-Li Suo, Song Chun Zhu, Shiguang Shan, Xilin Ch...
We define a compositional operational semantics for state machines and their composition in UML. Each state machine describes the behavior of an object of a class. If a class of a...
Harald Fecher, Marcel Kyas, Willem P. de Roever, F...
Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) provide infrastructures to make resources available to other participants in the network as independent services. However, service providers, n...
This paper provides three contributions to the study of functional integration of distributed enterprise systems. First, we describe the challenges associated with functionally in...
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Douglas C. Schmidt, ...