Process-Oriented, Flexible Composition of Web Services with UML
The composition of elementary web services to larger-scale services has become an important means to enhance e-business collaborations. If...
Basic User Requirements for Mobile Work Support Systems – Three Easy Steps
Due to shortage of time and resources in the early phases of mobile work support development processes, it is...
Accounting and Billing of Wireless Internet Services in the Third Generation Networks
The development of the wireless Internet market and its structure is driven by differing industry fundamentals and the revenue...
Change Discovery in Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Systems
In this paper, we present a novel approach for the change discovery in ontology-based knowledge management systems. It extends...
An Architecture for Managing Database Evolution
This paper presents an architecture for managing database evolution when all the components of the database (conceptual schema, logical...
Reifying Design Patterns to Facilitate Systems Evolution
In the Web age systems must be increasingly flexible, reconfigurable and adaptable in addition to being developed rapidly. As...
Managing Configuration with Evolving Constraints in Design Databases
Artifacts in engineering design are structurally complex and may be represented in software as recursively composite objects. Due to...
Intentions of Operations – Characterization and Preservation
Frequent changes of software requirements imply changes of the underlying database, like database schema, integrity constraints, as well as...
An Active Approach to Model Management for Evolving Information Systems
It is desirable to be able to interchange design information between CASE tools. Such interchange facilitates cooperative development, helps...
Toward the Automatic Derivation of XML Transformations
Existing solutions to data and schema integration require user interaction/input to generate a data transformation between two different schemas....