To rationalize the size of government, Act on adjusting a part of government’s financial rules is approved and the government is obliged to assign a part of its activities through (1) services by nonpublic sector, (2) partnership with nonpublic sector, and (3) assigning the management to nonpublic sector. There are many barriers in executing this law. The present study derived from a field stud...

Current business process flow representation languages such as BPEL4WS do not accommodate abstract specifications of business activities and dynamic binding of web services at run time. Moreover, dynamic selection of individual web services for a process is often not a stand-alone operation. There may be many inter-service dependencies and domain constraints that need to be considered in select...

December 22, 2006 1 Visual Representations of Executing Programs Steven P. Reiss Department of Computer Science Brown University Providence, RI 02912-1910 401-863-7641, FAX: 401-863-7657 {spr}@cs.brown.edu Abstract Programmers have always been curious about what their programs are doing while it is executing, especially when the behavior is not what they are expecting. Since program execution i...

The most costly aspect of gathering information over the Internet is that of transferring data over the network to answer the user’s query. We make two contributions in this paper that alleviate this problem. First, we present an algorithm for reducing the number of information sources in an information gathering (IG) plan by reasoning with localized closed world (LCW) statements. In contrast t...