The high competition among network providers places a demand for new ways to design network services with near zero development time, low cost, and high degrees of customization and evolution. Customization allows to fit the service according to the customers’ requirements, while evolution allows to adapt the service as soon as these requirements change. Moreover, customers are demanding the ab...

Recent peer-to-peer architectures do not fulfill the idea of a service-oriented architecture to allow the flexible composition of services towards concrete applications. This can be justified by the absence of flexible notations for the composition of services that incorporate the dynamic nature exposed by peer-to-peer architectures. In this work, the peer-to-peer architecture DeEvolve is prese...

This is a preview of the workshop on Aspect-Oriented Programming at ICSE 98. It includes an overview of the position papers. The workshop takes place on Monday, April the 2

For quite a long time already, great importance has been attached to the concept of Service-Oriented Architectures for future IT-architectures. However, a major challenge in implementing this concept lies in the gap between the functional department and IT department. Mashups, an architecture also based on services, try to avoid this gap by letting the user himself integrate the services. The f...

The present research featured competitive strategy aimed at achieving different goals in professional activity of employees with intensity perfectionism. It resulted a definition perfectionism based on the role personality orientation competitiveness, subject content orientation, and available publications perfectionism, its types, their relationship. type depends personal characteristics that ...