We promote the use of transactional attributes for modelling business processes in the service-oriented scenario. Transactional attributes have been introduced in Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) to decorate the methods published in Java containers. Attributes describe “modalities” that discipline the reconfiguration of transactional scopes (i.e., of caller and callee) upon method invocation. An orig...

In this paper, we present a Haskell Transactional Memory benchmark in order to provide a comprehensive application suite for the use of Software Transactional Memory (STM) researchers. We develop a framework to profile the execution of the benchmark applications and to collect detailed runtime data on their transactional behavior. Using a composite of the collected raw data, we propose new tran...

Current business environments are testing the relevance of the traditional psychological contract between employees and organisations. Commitment,, previously the cornerstones of many psychological contracts, is diminishing in importance as organisations pursue increasingly transactional relationships with employees and as employees move towards ‘protean’ careers. The question of whether these ...

the kind of contracts of government and public organisations that relates public affaires, that named public or administrative contracts , are very important to fulfil legal duties of government, and public contracts are new forms of providing public welfare, and management of public services, that are based on consenting instead of being authoritarian, but had been studied less in iran law bec...