The emergence of service-oriented architecture (SOA) as the foremost platform for contemporary business application and integration solutions offers enterprises new levels of flexibility and agility. In this contribution we compiled major project experiences of early adopters into 13 best practices for SOA evolution at the application and/or integration level.

In CBSE, current approaches based on software component are in short of flexibility because of lacking semantic. In this paper, we introduce an extended semantic discovery of software components in which non functional properties of components are considered. We also introduce an ontology supported automatic component composition method to realize the integration of the adequate component compo...

In the ESA Columbus Project, including in particular the European Space Station, applications are written in Ada and are distributed; moreover, the long lifetime of the space elements requires flexibility in order to support smooth software evolution. CHORUS is a distributed operating system, developed and supported by Chorus systèmes, which provides a basis for supporting efficiently distribu...

In the ADEPT project [ADEPT] we are looking at different facets of advanced process-oriented information systems in conjunction with each other: Component-based application development, exception handling and flexibility issues, dynamic workflow changes, temporal aspects, workflow evolution, inter-workflow dependencies, man-machine interfaces, scalability, and WfMS architectures and implementat...

This technical report outlines the design of fived. An ongoing project to bring features currently implemented in the application layer of the Internet into the core network stack. These features would traditionally describe OSI 7-layer model’s session layer. This design would have the greatest impact on the security and flexibility of our networks.

curve flexibility in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (ais) was one of the major concerns of spinal surgeons since the evolution of surgical correction techniques. in this respect, many tried to identify which criteria denote more rigid curve. in the present study, we aimed toward determining important factors influencing ais curve flexibility on supine bending films. we assessed radiographs of ...

Shorter development cycles and higher complexity of product development require more flexible corporate structures and cross organizational collaboration in order to gain the required know-how and execution capabilities. To fulfill these requirements, many companies are transforming themselves into project based organizations and abandoning traditional business lines. A project based approach g...

Project teams within organizations have many challenges to overcome in doing their work. As computer and collaboration technologies allow project team members to be increasingly dispersed in time, place, and organizational affiliation, even greater opportunities and challenges arise. This paper explores the issues associated with knowledge management in virtual project teams. The advantage of v...

Agile approaches help software development project teams to better meet user needs and ensure flexibility in uncertain environments. But using agile invites changes the increases interactions between team members, which both cause interruptions workplace. While can task completion increase process flexibility, they also hinder employee productivity. We conducted an exploratory study of four tea...

The DAM-LR project aims at virtually integrating various European language resource archives that allow users to navigate and operate in a single unified domain of language resources. This type of integration introduces Grid technology to the humanities disciplines and forms a federation of archives. The complete architecture is designed based on a few well-known components .This is considered ...