Management of extra-functional properties in component models is one of the main challenges in the component-based software engineering community. Still, the starting point in their management, namely their speci cation in a context of component models is not addressed in a systematic way. Extrafunctional properties can be expressed as attributes (or combinations of them) of components, or of a...

I often hear people say, "Real doctors don't have time for evidence-based medicine." In fact, practising evidence-based medicine while you work doesn't take much time at all—just Motivation. I did it as a house officer (intern), and you don't get much busier than that. Once you get into " right frame of mind, it is hard not to work in an evidence-based way, and lt >s lots of fun. How can you ge...

Integrated project management means that design and construction planning are interleaved with plan execution, allowing both the design and plan to be changed as necessary. This requires that the right eeects of change need to be propagated through the plan and design. When this is distributed among designers and planners, no one may have all of the information to perform such propagation and i...

Software deployment is a complex process that covers post development activities as configuring, releasing, installing, updating, adapting until uninstalling a software application. The existing tools do not cover all this process and they are ad hoc. This paper presents and describes some ideas to create a deployment environment. The aim of this environment is to ensure a coherent and secure i...

An important goal of workflow engines is to simplify the way in which the interaction of workflows and software components (or services) is described and implemented. The vision of the AristaFlow project is to support a "plug and play" approach in which workflow designers can describe interactions with components simply by "dragging" them from a repository and "dropping" them into appropriate p...

Mobile banking is getting a lot of attention as a result of the fact that the majority of the world population has some kind of mobile device and the rate of acceptance of mobile banking is increasing. To stay ahead of competition banks should take this opportunity to re-engineer the traditional time consuming process of loan negotiation and introduce mobile loan negotiation. In this work we pr...

The various existing agent models do not cover all the possible uses we consider for virtual reality applications. In this paper, we present an agent metamodel (Behave) based on an environment metamodel (Veha). This metamodel allows defining agents and organizing teams of agents in a virtual environment. The use of this metamodel is illustrated by the Gaspar application which simulates activiti...

This paper is devoted to a recently running project with a purpose of getting some useful feedback from the interested community. The main point of the project is an attempt to apply approaches developed in the scope of the Ambient Intelligence area and usually implemented indoor (eg., intelligent homes) also in various fields suitable for largescale outdoor activities (esp. working) applicatio...

With electric vehicles becoming a more attractive alternative to combustion vehicles, they appear as new volatile loads in the low voltage distribution grids. Until now, they are at the best only considered rudimentarily in the planning process. This paper presents the modelling of electric vehicles as agents in a multi-agent simulation environment for planning purposes. Integrating a model of ...