Object middleware, such as CORBA, is rapidly gaining acceptance as a means for cost effective and fast development for a wide range of applications in various areas of industry. St...
Maarten Wegdam, Dirk-Jaap Plas, Aart van Halteren,...
This paper describes a novel application for Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). By combining the concepts of Business Process Management and AOP, we present an approach for enabli...
Today, several data-storage systems allow applications to create and manage custom metadata to improve data search and navigability in large-scale storage systems. Our thesis is t...
The new generation of open networked IT systems poses particular challenges to software engineering due to their evolving nature and their high quality requirements. In particular...
In a multidatabase environment with mobile computers involved, the nature of computing is such that the user may not wait for the submitted global transaction to complete before d...