Process-oriented software quality management has gained considerable attention both from academia and industry. This is mainly due to the application of the Capability Maturity Model and the ISO 9000 standards throughout the world. Process-oriented software quality management (PSQM) aims at achieving higher quality of software products and at reducing development costs. Advocates of PSQM claim ...

One of the most serious bottlenecks in the scientific workflows of biodiversity sciences is the need to integrate data from different sources, software applications, and services for analysis, visualisation and publication. For more than a quarter of a century the TDWG Biodiversity Information Standards organisation has a central role in defining and promoting data standards and protocols suppo...

The current generation of Grid infrastructures designed for production activity is strongly computing oriented and tuned on the needs of applications that requires intensive computations. Problems arise when trying to use such Grids to satisfy the sharing of data-oriented and service-oriented resources as happens in the IVOA community. We have designed, developed and implemented a Grid query el...

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...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) has become a widespread architecture and integration means in companies, due to increased use and maturing of standards, technologies, tools and platforms. Platforms are certainly more mature than some other non-technical aspects of SOA. Adoption of SOA principles in system design results in certain benefits. In order to achieve balance between long-term goal...

Object-oriented software development as well as relational data storage are leading standards in their respective areas. The persistent storage of objects in relational tables is therefore a topic of major interest. To do so efficiently, a plethora of problems has to be overcome due to the impedance mismatch between the object-oriented and relational paradigms. Nowadays, dedicated objectrelatio...

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) have been adopted by organizations in a wide variety of industries, however, best practices have still yet to mature. This article, which is part of a larger study on SOA, develops a normative decision model introducing key factors that influence the timing and approach of adopting a SOA. The decision model is based on the results of multiple case studies of ...

Abstract In order to implement sustainability standards in practice, capabilities are needed at the organizational level as well individual level. The presented sustainable purchasing and supply management (SPSM) competence model is based on combination of a systematic literature review (SLR) Delphi study. outlines specific SPSM competences which divided into functional-oriented, cognition-orie...

Executive summary ii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The primary goal of this thesis is to consider how recommendations and standards for Danish IT architecture, in general, assure successful systems integration, leading to inter-operability in the Danish public sector. The secondary goal is to assess the specific case of integrating ECM (ESDH) systems from the FESD project with existing systems from KMD in ...