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In this paper, we discuss experiences gained during evaluation of the maintainability of a reference architecture in use at Océ, one of the world’s leading copier manufacturers. The evaluation is conducted using an approach based on SEI’s Software Architecture Analysis Method (SAAM). The paper proposes a variant of SAAM that helps to reduce the organisational impact of architecture evaluations....

We present the rags (Reference Architecture for Generation Systems) framework, a specification of an abstract Natural Language Generation (NLG) system architecture to support sharing, re-use, comparison and evaluation of NLG technologies. We argue that the evidence from a survey of actual NLG systems calls for a different emphasis in a reference proposal from that seen in similar initiatives in...

Reengineering existing (large-scale) applications to the web is a complex and highly challenging task. This is due to a variety of mostly demanding requirements for interactive web applications. Usually high performance is required, old interfaces still have to be supported, high availability requirements are usual, information has to be provided to multiple channels and in different formats, p...

Electronic commerce (e-commerce) is getting more and more important in people’s every day shopping routines. Vendors who want to establish an online channel besides their traditional retail practice have to integrate the two supply chains. The underlying information technology systems should be able to support the integration of the new and old processes. While reference models are a popular me...

Cross-organizational electronic collaboration is about to gain significant momentum and facilitates the emergence of a globally networked information service economy. However, existing solutions for the realization of such business relationships still exhibit weaknesses with respect to both managerial and technological aspects. In this work, we propose a service-oriented reference architecture ...

One reason for the slow adoption in industry of agent-oriented methodologies as a paradigm for developing systems is the lack of integration and generalpurpose technologies. To this end, there is a need to define common patterns, relationships between components, and structural qualities of an agent system. A reference architecture for agent-based systems would suit this need. This work describ...

The i-mode services platform is a unique business model that benefits service providers, the network operator, device manufacturers, and the customers. The current NTT DoCoMo solution is deployed to the PDC network, available only in Japan. Presently, several arguments have been put forward as to the success of i-mode in Japan, however such erudition has done little for other mobile operators f...

Traditional Data Warehouse (DWH) architectures are challenged by numerous novel Big Data products. These tools are typically presented as alternatives or extensions for one or more of the layers of a typical DWH reference architecture. Still, there is no established joint reference architecture for both DWH and Big Data that is inherently aligned with business goals as implied by Business Intel...