This paper investigates the problem of the labelling of the library, documentation and information field with particular emphasis on the terms ‘information’ and ‘document’. What influences introduced the concept of ‘information’ into the library field in the middle of the twentieth century? What kind of theoretical orientations have dominated the field, and how are these orientations linked to ...

Service Oriented Architectures offer an incomparable setting for the management and reuse of services, mixing different factors like software and services. The ability to choose between the services available often gets blurry, because of the difficulty when trying to find the best service that fits better the actual needs, or even because its invocation process gets excessively complex. This w...

The introduction of eGovernment services and applications leads to major changes in the structure and operation of public administrations. In this paper we present current work in progress in Italian eGovernment projects aimed at the analysis, development, deployment and evaluation of tools and environments to support the people who design, develop, use and evaluate eServices to citizens.

Modern enterprises rely on a distributed IT infrastructure to execute their business processes, adopting Service Oriented Architectures in order to improve the flexibility and ease of adaptation of their functions. Nowadays this is a vital characteristic, as the increased competition forces companies to continuously evolve and adapt. SOA applications must be supported by management and deployme...

We introduce StPowla, a workflow based approach to business process modelling that integrates a simple graphical notation, to ease the presentation of the core business process, a user–friendly policy language, Appel, to provide the necessary adaptation to the varied expectations of the various business stakeholders, and the Service Oriented Architecture, to assemble and orchestrate available s...

Service-oriented computing allows new applications to be developed by using and/or combining services offered by different organizations. Service composition can be applied when a client request cannot be satisfied by any individual service. In this case, the creation of a composite service from a number of available services could be pursued. This composite service should comply with the clien...

This paper proposes an approach to dynamically reconfiguring service-oriented applications from a business perspective: CAFISEadapt, which defines both business-level and software-level change operations to respectively express changes in the business domain and the software domain. Utilizing the convergence of these two level change operations, the approach expects application changes can be a...

Risk/return management has not only evolved as one of the key success factors for enterprises especially in the financial services industry, but is in the times of the financial crisis crucial for the survival of a company. It demands powerful and at the same time flexible computational resources making it an almost ideal application for service-oriented computing concepts. An essential charact...

Illuminated manuscripts of medieval music contain rich decorations in addition to handwritten neumatic notation. Our project with composer Philippe Leroux investigates the use of such handwritten symbols during the composition of his piece Quid sit musicus. We introduce pOM, an interactive paper application and a library for the OpenMusic computer-aided composition environment which links pen g...

The development of new Web services by composition of existing ones is becoming a widespread approach to realise business-to-business collaborations. The composite services obtained in this way are then eventually used in other compositions. Given the dynamic nature of the Web, this recursive composition of services rapidly leads to intricate dependencies between them. On the other hand, busine...