Many organizations provide information technology services, either to external or internal customers. They maintain software, operate information systems, manage and maintain work...
— Model-based approaches, especially based on directed graphs (DG), are becoming popular for mutation testing as they enable definition of simple, nevertheless powerful, mutation...
The WS-BPEL language has recently become a de facto standard for modeling Web-based business processes. One of its essential features is the fully programmable compensation mechan...
We introduce TIRA1 , a software architecture for the rapid prototyping of tailored information retrieval (IR) tools. TIRA allows to compose personal IR tools from atomic IR servic...
Large-scale distributed environments, such as the Internet, achieve advantages in exploiting software agents for applications, thanks to their autonomy in carrying out tasks. In s...