Service composition has become commonplace nowadays, in large part due to the increased complexity of software and supporting networks. Composition can be of many types, for instance sequential, prioritising, non-deterministic. However, a fundamental feature of the services to be composed consists in their dependencies with respect to each other. In this paper we propose a theory of service dep...

Thickness stretching effect based on shear and normal deformation theory is used in this paper for magneto-electro-elastic vibration analysis of a three-layered curved nanobeam including a nano core and two piezo-magnetic layers. Size-dependency is included in derivation of governing equations of motion based Eringen's nonlocal elasticity theory. The initial curvature is accounted in calculatio...

The dependency relation is the most essential ingredient in a dependency-based theory of syntax. This paper presents some statistical findings on the dependency relation extracted from a Chinese dependency treebank. A sentence in the proposed treebank can easily be converted into a SSyntS graph in Meaning-Text Theory. The statistics on the dependency relation show that modifiers make up 55% of ...

Thickness stretching effect based on shear and normal deformation theory is used in this paper for magneto-electro-elastic vibration analysis of a three-layered curved nanobeam including a nano core and two piezo-magnetic layers. Size-dependency is included in derivation of governing equations of motion based Eringen's nonlocal elasticity theory. The initial curvature is accounted in calculatio...

We describe the use of database dependency theory for investigating software designs. Dependency theory captures some of the essential constraints implicit in a system, and focuses attention on its update properties. The fundamental choice between redundancy and normalization is directly related to the issue of reuse. We show how dependency theory can be applied to the design of text editors an...

Organizations are struggling with evaluating technology options, many related to complex technologies like Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems. Real options theory is one way for organizations to evaluate technology options. However, real options theory for complex technologies currently lacks organization contextualization. Path dependency theory addresses why sub-optimal technologies d...