There are management issues surrounding the development process required for creation of software components that are to be implemented in applications and offered as constituents of a component or service framework. We offer ways of ensuring capability in a development team to provide services that may be assembled into multiple composite applications. We identify the following interrelated fa...

In this paper, we describe our experiences in developing application allocation algorithms and a framework for composing pervasive applications. The framework supports applications which consist of a set of components residing on physically distributed devices. We will argue that such composite applications gain additional flexibility as they can adapt to the situation at hand. That is, their a...

AIM The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate and compare the microleakage of restorations using low shrinkage silorane-based dental composite and methacrylate-based dental composites in Class II cavity at the occlusal and gingival margins. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty mandibular molars were collected and divided into three experimental groups and one negative control group. Class II slot...

Our approach to content negotiation is a framework of mobile agents, where the agents can migrate from user devices to negotiation servers in order to get more resources. We took this approach and now we introduce new features in the architecture. The key idea is content customisation depending on device description with CC/PP (Composite Capability/Preference Profile). The objective is twofold....

In this paper we introduce a new UML stereotype, the Function Block Adapter (FBA), which is responsible for the connection of UML-RealTime capsules and function blocks of the IEC 61131-3 (standard for PLC programming languages). FBAs contain an interface to capsules as well as to function blocks and a description of the mapping between these interfaces. For this description a special FBA-langua...

Enterprises are evolving towards advanced forms of cooperation and networking. This kind of tight cooperation requires the creation of global Business Processes (i.e., cross-enterprise composite services) composed starting from a set of existing local processes (exposed, in turn, as services) found in different enterprises. To this end, in this chapter we present an ontology-based approach for ...

Tissue engineering may be defined as the application of biological, chemical and engineering principles toward the repair, restoration or regeneration of living tissue using biomaterials, cells and biologically active molecules alone or in combinations. The rapid restoration of tissue biomechanical function represents a great challenge, highlighting the need to mimic tissue structure and mechan...

This paper introduces a new programming model for distributed systems, distributed composite objects (DCO), to meet efficient implementation, transparency, and performance demands of distributed applications with cooperating users connected through the internet. DCO model incorporates two basic concepts. The first is composition, by which an object is partitioned into sub-objects that together ...

Incorporating abstraction methods, such as aggregation and association, into information system design methodologies has improved our ability to model the real world. The semantically-higher level objects that result from these abstractions are referred to as composite objects. These objects play an important role in spatio-temporal knowledge representation and query formulation, although littl...

A number of animals have evolved to produce silk-based composite materials for a variety of task-specific applications. The review initially focuses on the composite structure of silk fibers produced naturally by silkworms and spiders, followed by the preparation and applications of man-made composite materials (including fibers, films, foams, gels and particulates) incorporating silk proteins ...