S ometimes, an important aspect of the world is so obvious that we simply take it for granted. We rarely discuss it or even think about it explicitly. In our opinion, the processual nature of reality— that it is fundamentally a sequence of interconnected occurrences or events—is one such aspect: we continually experience change, but tend instead to explain the world in terms of static things. F...

Advances through scientific endeavour have delivered many benefits to the human race and overall these benefits have outweighed any associated problems. Not uncommonly apparent improvements in our knowledge are eventually shown to be incorrect or misguided in the light of subsequent knowledge. This might arise because a different perspective was taken on a problem so that a new understanding wa...

We present a foundational framework to manage changes in composite services. The framework takes as input a change specification and reacts to the change in an automatic and efficient manner. We propose a service ontology that provides systematic support for the change management process. We also propose a set of algorithms that enable us to efficiently query the proposed service ontology. With...

The term transgration refers to a labour “movement” across institutional boundaries. This is particularly true for transition economies like China where the majority of its labour forces are subject to be redistributed as part of the adjustment or reconstruction of economic structure from planned to market economy. In front of increasing challenges and uncertainties, different people may have d...