Workflow systems are receiving increased attention as they intend to facilitate the operations of enterprises by coordinating and streamlining business activities. The need for automated support and operational models that allow workflow applications to coordinate units of work across multiple servers—according to business defined rules and routes—is becoming critical for the proper management ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the short- and long-term effects of a structural-oriented (convential) with an activity-oriented physiotherapeutic treatment in patients with frozen shoulder. DESIGN Double-blinded, randomized, experimental study. SETTING Outpatient clinic. SUBJECTS We included patients diagnosed with a limited range of motion and pain in the shoulder region, who had received a prescr...

In spite of recent and constant researches in the Component-Based Development area, there is still a lack for patterns, processes and methodologies that effectively support either the development “for reuse” and “with reuse”. This paper presents Aspect IPM, a process model that integrates the concepts of component-based software engineering, frameworks, patterns, non-functional requirements and...

Product/service-systems (PSS) are in effect an approach to designing integrated products and services with a focus on both customer activities and product life cycle considerations. Literature offers a range of serviceoriented design strategies from product-oriented DfX approaches to more customer-oriented approaches such as integrated solutions and service design. These design strategies are m...

Organizations deploy intranets to provide access to documents for those who use them. But the web of computing comprises more than just documents: people, tools, and processes are critical to organizational function. In particular, people may need guidance on how to perform tasks, as well as access to information necessary to carry out those tasks. In this paper, we present a language for descr...

The agent-oriented software engineering methodology Tropos offers a structured development process and supporting tools for developing complex, distributed systems. The objective of this paper is twofold: first, to illustrate the use of Tropos to develop a Multi-Agent System, performing basic analysis and design activities, code generation and testing, with the support of a set of tools; second...

For supporting process interconnection, on top of an existing open-source Business Process Management (BPM) environment oriented to Web Services (modeling module and execution engine, BPEL Business Process Execution Language compatible), this paper will propose a support to task-oriented, interactive decisional activities to be performed by CNO (Collaborative Networked Organizations) Actors. At...

We propose object-oriented Petri nets for effective modelling of spiking concept of neurons. Brain is the central part of nervous system and neurons are one-membrane cells, which work concurrently to process information from sensory organs. Modelling neurons provides precise and exact ways of expression, which allow us to go beyond the insights that intuitive or commonsense reasoning alone, can...

Coordination viewed as the notion of \managing dependencies among activities" 8] is the key concept for modelling concurrent systems. In this paper, we investigate coordination from the viewpoint of programmers and programming language designers with respect to object{oriented programming. Finally, we evaluate existing object{oriented coordination models.