Long running applications often need to adapt due to changing requirements or changing environment. Typically, such adaptation is performed by dynamically adding or removing components. In these types of adaptation, components are often added to or removed from multiple processes in the system. While techniques for such adaptations have been extensively discussed in the literature, there is a l...

This paper considers primary school texts as resources for teaching reading and children's literature, applying principles of close New Historicism theory to explore the effects on changing social, political, pedagogical contexts in twentieth century. Particular issues discussed are predominant themes ideologies, narrative technique, representations systems authority control, positioning child ...

The role of types in categorical models of meaning is investigated. A general scheme for how typed models of meaning may be used to compare sentences, regardless of their grammatical structure is described, and a toy example is used as an illustration. Taking as a starting point the question of whether the evaluation of such a type system ‘loses information’, we consider the parametrized typing...

Scientific illustration can be defined as a realistic representation of an object that the illustrator or scientist observes, pointing out features they want to show. Over years, has fulfilled different objectives, becoming indispensable tool in science service, being extremely important understanding natural world and recognized significant factor emergence modern (MOSER, 2014). The scientific...

In this article some issues about the theory of societal complexity are explained: what are complex societal problems and how should these be handled. The problem of climate change is used as an illustration. The Compram methodology is a methodology based on the theory of societal complexity that gives guidelines to handle real life complex societal problems such as climate change. Handling acc...

We consider continuous-time Markov chains representing queueing systems in random environment and we obtain necessary and sufficient conditions for having product-form stationary distributions. The related topics of partial balance and the ESTA property are also studied. As an illustration, we apply the results to study the stationary distributions of Jackson networks in random environment. For...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been proposed as both a technical and managerial solution in making firms more agile in addressing ever changing business needs. This conceptual paper identifies 3 levels of SOA implementation maturity: 1. Stability, 2. Flexibility, 3. Sense and Respond. A process and governance strategy on how to achieve each level is theorized and supported by case exam...