Two recent standards have a great potential to impulse the use of object orientation in the development of real-time applications. The first is the Real-Time Specification for Java, consisting in an Application Programming Interface (API) for real-time object-oriented programming. The other is the emerging RTUML standard, which addresses the specification of real-time requirements and time usin...

Not only since the upcoming of Service-oriented Architectures the modelling of cross-organizational business processes is a heavily investigated field comprising dozens of standards based on different concepts. New techniques on the implementation site, e.g. Web Service orchestration and choreography, further extended the possibilities and requirements on such standards. To systematically order...

Not only since the upcoming of Service-oriented Architectures the modelling of cross-organizational business processes is a heavily investigated field comprising dozens of standards based on different concepts. New techniques on the implementation site, e.g. Web Service orchestration and choreography, further extended the possibilities and requirements on such standards. To systematically order...

A fundamental requirement for achieving continuity of care is commonly accepted to be the integration and interoperability of different clinical oriented systems towards the realization of a “longitudinal” Electronic Healthcare Record. To enable seamless integration of various kinds of IT applications into a healthcare network, a commonly accepted framework based on international relevant stand...

Current practice in developing courseware for online learning, differs little from traditional means. When implementing online learning, institutes look for practitioners who can create content. However, the lack of adaptable, computer parseable information exchanges leads to a duplication of effort. The solution is twofold, properly describe the ontology of learning objects, expose metadata an...

Future information processing environments will consist of a vast network of heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed (HAD) computing resources (hardware, programs, and data). There is increasing agreement that modeling such a system as a distributed collection of objects provides the appropriate framework for integrating HAD resources, in both distributed computing and telecommunications env...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) establishes an architectural model that aims to enhance the efficiency, agility, and productivity of an enterprise by positioning services as the primary means through which solution logic is represented in support of the realization of strategic goals associated with service-oriented computing. Web services seem to become the preferred implementation technol...

Object oriented source code occurs in diverse programming languages with documentation using miscellaneous standards, comments in individual styles, or associated test cases that are hard to exploit through information retrieval or knowledge discovery techniques. Typically, the information about object-oriented source code for a software system is distributed across several different sources, w...

SOA is rapidly emerging as the premier integration and architectural approach in contemporary complex, heterogeneous computing environments. SOA is not simply about deploying software: it also requires that organizations evaluate their business models, come up with service-oriented analysis and design techniques, deployment and support plans, and carefully evaluate partner/customer/supplier rel...

In the past, research on agent-oriented software engineering had been widely lacking touch with the world of industrial software development. Recently, a cooperation has been established between the Foundation of Intelligent Physical Agents (FIPA) and the Object Management Group (OMG) aiming to increase acceptance of agent technology in industry by relating to de facto standards (object-oriente...