This paper deals with the design of crosscutting features in general and in the UML in particular. We postulate a couple of issues that we think an aspect-oriented designer is faced with when designing crosscutting features. These issues include the independent specification of the crosscutting details and of where to crosscut, the designation of crosscut or referenced elements, the characteriz...

The GeoWebAgri-project evaluates the use of spatial data in precision farming tasks. A service-oriented spatial data infrastructure working with standards could identified as optimal environment for the users’ needs. Using standards of OGC, ISO and W3C help to increase the functionality, usability and accessibility of spatial based applications in agriculture.

Dynamic changes of services and requirements require service connection relationships adaptable in service compositions. This paper presents an adaptable service connector model and related language and tools. The model presents service connection relationships as an explicit component with which service connections can be reconfigured and changes of services involved in the interaction can be ...

Copyright: Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Zhang, Mingwei; Liu, Chengfei; Yu, Jian; Zhu, Zhiliang and Zhang, Bin 2013, 'A correlation context-aware approach for composite service selection', Concurrency Computation: Practice and Experience, Vol. 25, no. 13 (Sep 2013), pp. 1909-1927, which has been published in final form at ht...

COSMA proposes a novel SLA management approach for composite services. It supports a composite service provider in managing SLAs with providers of atomic services, in managing SLAs with requesters of composite services, and aligning both SLA management activities with each other. On this basis, a composite service provider can control and optimize its composite SLA management activities during ...

Web processes are made up of services as their units of functionality. The services are represented as a graph and compose a synergy of service. The composite service is prone to failure due to various causes. However, the end-user should receive a smooth and non-interrupted execution. Atomic replacement of a failed Web service to recover the system is a straightforward approach. Nevertheless, ...

Nowadays, product information is being a key issue for traceability and quality management but also for state-of-the-art technologies such as intelligent product technologies. From this statement, product information design and management are becoming one of the most important steps in order to control quality of services and products that aims at customer satisfaction. However, there is no rea...

The value of knowledge assets in creating competitive advantage and subsequently wealth through innovation has never been greater (Teece, 1998). It is increasingly being acknowledged that the resources and the competencies developed within the organisation as well as the mechanisms for building up and reconfiguring these competencies is the only defence against a fierce competition (Penrose, 19...

A new approach for the realization of self-adaptive and highly available production systems based on a context aware approach, allowing selfadaptation of flexible manufacturing processes in production systems and effective knowledge sharing to support maintenance, is presented. The usage of dynamically changing context as basis for adaptation of flexible manufacturing lines/processes and effect...

In this paper we present an interaction-oriented approach to the process of designing a document for the end-user. We emphasize exchange between subjects and the subjects' relationship with their environment. The analysis of verbal exchanges offers a way to apprehend such a situated collective. We attempt to unveil the cognitive processes underlying this task with special attention paid to the ...