Component-oriented and service-oriented approaches have gained a strong enthusiasm in industries and academia with a particular interest for service-oriented approaches. The service concept and its use in web-based application development have a huge impact on reuse practices. Accordingly a considerable part of software architectures is influenced; these architectures are moving towards service...

The rapid globalization of world enterprises and the pressing need to provide networks and services more responsive to the “end users” push the telecommunications world towards rapid service deployment and new integrated value-added technology solutions. Service orientation, initially introduced in Intelligent Networks and currently further exploited within the Service Oriented Architectures (S...

The study of adaptivity, i.e., the capability to react to changes in the environment, is becoming ever more important in many fields of study, and in the development of software in particular. This paper presents a systematic review in which both the extension and complexity of this notion are examined. After studying the influence from external fields, this review checks the hypothesis of usin...

This literature review synthesizes existing research in the field of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) from a business perspective and integrates results from 40 works to offer researchers an overview about the existing body of knowledge in this research field as well as a research agenda, which unifies and extends previous efforts. While the literature regarding the technologies and design ...

The work ow concept has been very successful in streamlining business processes by automating the coordination of activities, but has so far been limited to the use within single organizations. Any attempt to distribute work ows among di erent organizations has to face the problems posed by the complex relationship among autonomous organizations and their services. To address these problems we ...

Much recent research work discusses the transformation between different process modeling languages. This work, however, is mainly focussed on specific process modeling languages, and thus the general reusability of the applied transformation concepts is rather limited. In this article, we aim to abstract from concrete transformations by distinguishing two major paradigms for representing contr...

We present a design approach for structuring multimodels in an object-oriented framework for physical modeling. This approach is termed object-oriented physical modeling (OOPM). Multimodels have played a key role in permitting a model designer to construct large-scale dynamical models. We have built upon earlier work in multimodeling by specifying how multimodels are deened for object-oriented ...

As of today, it is unclear whether aspect-oriented modeling can benefit the model-driven development of software product lines. Although some preliminary studies exist at the requirements and implementation level that investigate the interaction of crosscutting behaviors and product-line variabilities, to the best of our knowledge these interactions at the modeling level are not yet investigate...

This paper provides a research model to analyze how decisions relating to the choice of modeling approach are made in the context of software engineering and how behavioral variables account for the intention and actual use associated with conceptual modeling frameworks. Modeling approach refers to the part of system development that involves investigating the problems and requirements of the u...

agent oriented software engineering (aose) is an emerging field in computer science  and  proposes some systematic ideas for multi agent systems analysis, implementation and maintenance. despite the various methodologies introduced in the agent-oriented software engineering, the main challenges are defects in different aspects of methodologies. according to the defects resulted from weaknesses ...