Current approaches to engineering web service-based software systems are limited by lack of comprehensive web service component characterisations. In this paper, we describe our recent work applying Aspect-Oriented Component Engineering (AOCE) to develop more adaptable, higher quality and more reusable software components for web services. We give examples on how AOCE can be used to design and ...

There exists much controversy in providing an effective definition of human death, largely due to the lack of a rigorous separation and ordered formulation of three distinct elements: a universally accepted definition of death, the medical criterion (anatomical substrata) for determining that death has occurred, and the tests to prove that the criterion has been satisfied. The papers herein rev...

This submission describes the very first step in the long-term project of building a national database of digitized cultural and scientific heritage. The main idea is to create an object-oriented set of metadata for describing any kind of digital object and to define translations to other metadata standards.

ImLib3D is a C++ library for 3D medical image processing research. It provides a carefully designed, object-oriented, standards conforming C++ library, as well as a separate visualization system. Focus has been put on simplicity for the researcher who is considered to be the end-user. Source code is freely available and has been placed in an open collaborative development environment.

As Service-Oriented Computing is gaining mainstream adoption, Services are emerging as core-building blocks of today’s applications. In particular, web services have become the most common technology manifestation of the service-oriented computing paradigm. Basic open-standards that enable web services such as WSDL, SOAP etc. have evolved and stabilized over a period of time. However issues suc...

A puzzle that faces public administrators within regulatory governance networks is how to balance the need for democratic accountability while increasingly facing demands from elected officials to optimize oversight of industry by utilizing the expertise of the private sector in developing risk-based standards for compliance. The shift from traditional command and control oversight to process o...

the past years a number of temporal extensions to the different database models have been proposed. Extensions to the relational model have been following the different SQL standards, while no attempts have been made to extend the OO-databases' standard, defined by ODMG. In this paper we present a temporal extension to the ODMG standard, as this has been specified in the TOOBIS project. A Tempo...

not included in the book) Repeatedly, formal standardisation has been criticised for issuing standards that are not up-to-date and difficult to implement. The institutional set-up is blamed. This chapter examines the claim and explores how different standards settings affect technology development. An institutional analysis is made. The standardisation rationale of the formal standards bodies i...