Formalising Feasibility and Correctness of Distributed Business Processes
A distributed business process organizes activities by several enterprises to fulfill a given business goal. The purpose of this...
MIDAS/BD: A Methodological Framework for Web Database Design
One of the most important trends in Information System research is concerning Web application development. Generally, Web Information Systems...
Modeling Products for Versatile E-commerce Platforms — Essential Requirements and Generic Design Alternatives
Electronic commerce (e-commerce) covers a wide range of business transactions. Usually, a transactions includes products, i.e. goods or services....
Translating XQuery into XSLT
The WWW Consortium (W3C) has recently presented a working draft of XQuery, which is intended to serve as standardized...
Seamless Personalization of E-commerce Applications
In this paper we present an original approach for personalizing complex Web applications, in particular e-commerce applications. This approach...
Living Manufacturing Systems with Living Organizations
Borrowing the title of Nobel-prize laureate physicist Erwin Schrodinger’s work “What is Life?”, we ask “What are Living Systems?”...
A Study on Human-Centric Real-Time Scheduling for PWB Assembly Line
Aiming at promoting both a mass customized production, and higher motivations of human operators, we have conducted an analysis,...
The E/S Tool IT-Support for Ergonomic and Sociotechnical System Design
A continuous changing environment imposes new requirements for assembly management and the role of human factors. To support an...
Construction of Virtual Working Environment and Evaluation of the Workers
In the age of Information Technology, the work styles of office workers are transformed. In this study, working environments...
Human Models and Data in the Ubiquitous Information Infrastructure
In this paper we address the modelling of humans in a context of ubiquitous information services. First we present...
