In recent years both economic geographers and innovation scholars have paid considerable attention to knowledge-intensive-business-services (KIBS) and professional service firms (PSFs). Both communities have also shown a strong interest in knowledge, and ‘knowledge-bases’. Considering architecture to be based on symbolic and synthetic knowledge, and engineering to be based on analytical and syn...

Challenges that are hardly technical, have been reported to occur during enterprise architecture development. To address those caused by ineffective collaboration between architects and organisation stakeholders, we are developing a method referred to as Collaborative Evaluation of Enterprise Architecture Design Alternatives (CEADA). Our method aims at enabling effective execution of collaborat...

In software engineering, it is important issue that architects estimate the performance of software in the early phase of development process. Many approaches translate architecture based on UML into analytical models. However, in agent based system development, these approaches ignore or simplify the crucial details of the underlying the performance of an agent platform. Additionally, architec...