Abstract Intelligent Decision Support is considered in unstructured decision situations
characterized by one or more of the following factors: complexity, uncertainty, multiple …

Flexible business processes are a key success factor for enterprises to succeed in
globalised markets. The Service-oriented Architecture (SoA) concept is very well suited to …

In recent years, the Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) and Universal Description
Discovery Integration (UDDI) standards arose as ad hoc standards for the definition of …

Web services are interoperable components that can be used in application-integration and
component-based application development. In so doing, the appropriate specification of …

The automation of cross-organizational business processes is one of the most important
trends of the information age. Instead of a tight integration however, collaborating …

Identification of COTS candidates is a complex activity itself. It implies not only dealing with
an impressive number of possible candidates but also with unstructured information that …

This paper proposes a standardized framework for the specification of components, which
focuses on providing the information necessary to facilitate component development …

Component markets, which facilitate the exchange of components between sellers and
buyers, are a key prerequisite for the emergence of reuse-driven component-based software …

In diesem Beitrag wird ein Spezifikationsrahmen vorgestellt, mit dem sich die Außensicht
von Software-Komponenten in normierter Weise beschreiben lässt. Der vorgestellte …

Purpose–Component‐based software development is a potential reuse paradigm for the
future. While the required technologies for a component‐style system development are …