Agent Patterns for Ambient Intelligence
The realization of complex distributed applications, required in areas such as e-Business, e-Government, and ambient intelligence, calls for new...
Modeling the Semantics of 3D Protein Structures
The post Human Genome Project era calls for reliable, integrated, flexible, and convenient data management techniques to facilitate research...
Risk-Driven Conceptual Modeling of Outsourcing Decisions
In the current networked world, outsourcing of information technology or even of entire business processes is often a prominent...
Efficient Recursive XML Query Processing in Relational Database Systems
There is growing evidence that schema-conscious approaches are a better option than schema-oblivious techniques as far as XML query...
A Pattern and Dependency Based Approach to the Design of Process Models
In this paper an approach for building process models for e-commerce is proposed. It is based on the assumption...
Situated Preferences and Preference Repositories for Personalized Database Applications
Advanced personalized web applications require a carefully dealing with their users’ wishes and preferences. Since such preferences do not...
Use of Tabular Analysis Method to Construct UML Sequence Diagrams
A sequence diagram in UML is used to model interactions among objects that participate in a use case. Developing...
Analysis and Management of Web Service Protocols
In the area of Web services and service-oriented architectures, business protocols are rapidly gaining importance and mindshare as a...
An Approach to Formalizing the Semantics of UML Statecharts
UML is a language for specifying, visualizing and documenting object-oriented systems. However, UML statecharts lack precisely defined syntax and...
Semantic Interpretation and Matching of Web Services
A major issue in the study of semantic Web services concerns the matching problem of Web services. Various techniques...
