With the advent of the Model Driven Architecture, models are replacing code as the major artifact in software development. A critical success factor for this is the possibility to derive models from each other in terms of transformations. Existing approaches, such as the forthcoming QVT-standard, will provide a proper foundation for transforming models on a fine-grained level. They, however, do...

On June 29, 2011, Vicente García-Díaz defended his PhD thesis at Oviedo University, titled: “MDCI: Model-Driven Continuous Integration”. The research was funded by the Government of the Principality of Asturias (Spain). Vicente García-Díaz defended his dissertation in a publicly open presentation held in the School of Computer Engineering at Oviedo University, and was able to comment on every q...

developing an integrated model, establishing a balance between conservation and revitalization objectives in the historic environment, has always been a controversial issue in many countries; however, they sometimes have a type of symbiotic relationship with each other. in this regard, the main aim of this paper is to answer this question: is it possible to provide an appropriate model for “int...

We study ghetto formation in a population with natives and immigrants in the framework of the two-dimensional Ising-model with Kawasaki-exchange dynamics. It is the phase structure of the Ising model, the integration speed and the immigration rate which determine whether ghetto formation between natives and immigrants can be avoided or not. Our simulations are performed in and out-of equilibrium.

This chapter describes an architecture for the eMarketplace that integrates the interests of autonomous enterprises in a single open-market environment. The environment encompasses several systems and business issues, such as the many-to-many relationships between customers and suppliers, systems, and business-related services. The architecture for this integrated environment is business-centri...

Saliency integration approaches have aroused general concern on unifying saliency maps from multiple saliency models. In fact, saliency integration is a weighted aggregation of multiple saliency maps, such that measuring the weights of saliency models is essential. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised model for saliency integration, namely the arbitrator model (AM), based on the Bayes’ pro...

This article reviews the nature of a workflow system from a systems integration perspective, focusing on points of interaction between the workflow control software and other system components, such as process design tools, legacy applications and messaging infrastructure. The characteristics of the underlying business model and its representation to the workflow system are also discussed, incl...