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In this paper, we present a distributed multi-agent meeting scheduling system for mobile devices. This mobile agent system supports people on the move to locate feasible time slots to meet with each other, using their mobile devices. It negotiates the best suitable times integrating timetables and time preferences from the participants. Unlike to current approaches, the negotiation of the meeting...
Production systems will become increasingly complex to handle flexible business processes and systems. Engineering systems and tools from several sources have to cooperate for building agile component-based systems. While there are approaches for the technical integration of component-based industrial automation systems, there is only little work on the effective and efficient integration of engineering...
The current development of global economies and societies is regarded as being highly unsustainable. This paper analyses the current situation. Instead of simplistic metrics that take only snapshots of the life-cycle of a product into consideration, an approach is introduced that covers the whole supply chain. The core idea is that end-to-end transparency, specific data models, a process architecture,...
The quality evaluation of open source software (OSS) products, e.g., defect estimation and prediction approaches of individual releases, gains importance with increasing OSS adoption in industry applications. Most empirical studies on the accuracy of defect prediction and software maintenance focus on product metrics as predictors that are available only when the product is finished. Only few prediction...
Market players that can respond to critical market events faster than their competitors, will end up as winners in the emerging new economy. In order to win the next phase in the never-ending market race, they will also need to integrate their business processes with those of their suppliers and business partners. Additionally, the ability to quickly adjust processes to better respond to one's customers...
Fraud has been an issue since the very beginnings of commerce. Today, as business moved into the online era, this topic has become a major issue in e-commerce. In this paper, we introduce a solution architecture for detection and preventing fraud in real time by using an event-based system called SARI (sense and respond infrastructure). We present the architecture and components for a real-time fraud...
Open source software (OSS) solutions provide mission- critical services to industry and government organizations. However, empirical studies on OSS development practices raise concerns on risky practices such as unclear requirement elicitation, ad hoc development process, little attention to quality assurance (QA) and documentation, and poor project management. Event then the ability to produce high...
Market players that can respond to critical business events faster than their competitors will end up as winners in the fast moving economy. Event-based systems have been developed and used to implement networked and adaptive business environments based on loosely coupled systems. In this paper, we introduce Event Cloud, a system that allows searching for business events in a variety of contexts that...
Decision makers in safety-critical domains rely on data from dependable information systems. Traditional time- and safety-critical information systems, such as traffic management systems, have been using proprietary point-to-point data links, which are very dependable, but also time-consuming and costly to change due to the need to manually adapt a multitude of deployed systems. In this paper we introduce...
Today's business climate requires organizations to constantly evolve IT strategies to respond to new opportunities or threats. Tracking the achievement of business goals, objectives and strategies is increasingly used to measure and adjust the outcome of business processes. In this paper, we introduce a Web service based approach for probing WSBPEL processes. With our approach organizations are able...
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