E-services may be used to wrap an organization’s information system and to provide a standard interface that enables cooperation with other information systems. As a consequence, e-services should not only provide functionalities, but also embed mechanisms for inter-organizational coordination and control to enact cooperation. Cooperation among different organizations is based on contractual ag...

The development of service-oriented applications has reached a point where more specifications are needed to enable holistic transparent service-management. A three-schema-architecture for design of servicebase-management-systems according to the ANSI/SPARC-model for database design is proposed in this paper. The conceptual schema of the proposed architecture decribes the servicebase, what prov...

A good analysis of the application domain is the most complex and crucial phase in information system design, regardless of its dimensions. Many well-known methodologies exist for the following development phase, but to design a specific application domain many approaches follow one another: from UML to goal-oriented approach. All these became critical when the final application will be a large...

The embodiment and conceptual design phases of mechanical and energetic systems are concerned with preliminary design. The embodiment design phase aims at investigating the feasibility of concepts emerging from conceptual design. Embodiment achieves to make a decision concerning the main features of the architecture of a product, which will be detailed in the next design phase. The main charact...