Engineering component-based software systems in a distributed fashion is challenging. Particular issues to address include software process and work co-ordination, sharing and collaborative editing of component specifications, designs and implementations, and appropriate sharing of reusable components. This paper describes our approach to tool support for distributed component engineering. Seve...

Web services can be seen as a newly emerging research area for Service-oriented Computing and their implementation in Serviceoriented Architectures. Web services are self-contained, self-describing modular applications or components providing services. Web services may be dynamically aggregated, composed, and enacted as Web services Workflows. This requires frameworks and interaction protocols ...

Macrophyte species and trait assemblages from 104 minimally disturbed boreal forest lakes, covering broad environmental geographic gradients were analysed to identify associations with variables at different spatial scales: context (GEO) catchment (CATCH) lake (LOCAL) characteristics.Constrained ordination variation partitioning used quantify in (canonical correspondence analysis [CCA] pCCA) (r...

Hypertension should be best managed under primary care settings. This study aimed to compare, between Shanghai and Shenzhen, the perceived quality of primary care in terms of accessibility, continuity, co-ordination, and comprehensiveness among hypertensive patients.A cross-sectional study was conducted in Shanghai and Shenzhen, China. Multistage random sampling method was used to select 8 comm...

The co-ordination language Linda has been used for parallel processing for many years. Linda uses a shared tuple space and a number of primitives to provide access to the tuple space and thereby enabling communication between processes executing concurrently. Linda provides asynchronous communication between processes, but synchronous access between the processes and the tuple spaces. The Bonit...