Manufacturing systems are changing its structure and organisation. Supply chain are evolving to more coupled organisations, like virtual enterprises, though maintaining the single entities autonomy, adaptability and dynamism properties. Such organisations are very different, which imply organisational and technological shift through agility, distribution, decentralisation, reactivity and flexib...

Recent advances in wireless and mobile networking technology pose a new set of requirements and challenges that are not previously thought of, when it comes to smart space middleware design. Leading the list is how to embrace diversity and unpredictability inherent in mobile computing environments. Service-oriented computing is being recognized as one of viable solutions to the problem. Accordi...

The traditional view that proteins possess absolute functional specificity and a single, fixed structure conflicts with their marked ability to adapt and evolve new functions and structures. We consider an alternative, "avant-garde view" in which proteins are conformationally dynamic and exhibit functional promiscuity. We surmise that these properties are the foundation stones of protein evolva...

Over the last few years, there has been considerable research in the area of Software Architecture. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the specification of real-time properties of such architectures. This paper presents the Xelha architectural description language which is intended to overcome this deficiency. The language offers both a task model and a resource model. The fo...

Transition intermediaries are actors that support socio-technical transition processes by bridging structural deficiencies in a transitioning domain. Previous research has identified what roles perform and how. However, while domains definition state of change, the dynamics have hardly been studied. Therefore, we explore mechanisms driving change transition-supportive intermediaries, kind condi...