Most software agent lifecycles are designed in such a way that they mimic the lifecycles of humans (anthropomorphism). This position paper presents a set of operations for software agents which have no immediate biological analogies, such as splitting and merging agents. We argue through a series of scenarios the potential benefits of this approach. We present a method to implement these operat...

Not only has the rate of change accelerated beyond our classical lifecycles capability but also the demands of high quality and low cost are beyond our past capabilities  how to leverage specific outside tools to meet these demands will be presented. This presentation will focus on a spirit of collaboration and cooperation expressed in Web lifecycles and compare that with the traditional lifec...

Having confidence in the permanence of a digital resource requires a deep understanding of the preservation activities that will need to be performed throughout its lifetime and an ability to plan and resource for those activities. The LIFE (Lifecycle Information For E-Literature) and LIFE Projects have advanced understanding of the short and long-term costs in this complex area, facilitating b...

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems are widely used in the manufacturing industry. A core feature of such systems is providing support for versioning of product data. As workflow functionality is increasingly used in PLM systems the possibility emerges that versioning policies as encapsulated in process models are inconsistent with respect to their actual lifecycles. In this paper we def...

the prophet struggled a lot to promote the social position and status of women in the society. among the famous women of early islam, who took their model from islamic teachings was umma habibah. detached from her economic and family relations, she joined the circle of muslims and had a great impact at the early islam. she was raised in islamic teachings and took an important place in the early...

In this demonstration we introduce Gelee, our online platform for the hosted specification and cooperative execution of lifecycles of artifacts of any kind. With Gelee we aim at filling two lacks we identify in current cooperative software systems when it comes to unstructured, artifact-based works (e.g., the writing of a project deliverable): the lack of state and the complete lack of automate...

The rules for inheritance of classes with respect to data and function members are well defined. For example, the proposals for programming by contract in Eiffel ensure additional consistency between superclasses and subclasses. In object-oriented design, it is common to capture the behaviour of classes with lifecycles which are expressed in the form of finite state machines. In this context, t...

Tidal flats (non-vegetated area) are soft-sediment habitats that alternately submerged and exposed to the air by changeable tidal levels. The flat dynamics research mainly utilizes cell-level comparisons between consecutive snapshots, but in-depth study requires more detailed information of dynamic activities. To better track, represent, analyze flats’ activities, this proposes an integrated ap...