The packet-routing problem is examined in a network-independent context. The goal is to
devise a strategy for routing that works well for a wide variety of networks. To achieve this …

Abstract Service granularity generally refers to the size of a service. The fact that services
should be large-sized or coarse-grained is often postulated as a fundamental design …

Enterprise architecture (EA) is a coherent whole of principles, methods, and models that are
used in the design and realization of an enterprise's organizational structure, business …

Modeling languages such as UML offer a set of basic models to describe a software system
from different views and at different levels of abstraction. Tools supporting an unrestricted …

Although architectural concepts and techniques have been considered mainly as a means
of controlling the complexity of develo** software, we argue, and demonstrate, that they …

This paper describes the effects of a feedback-enabled MDA prototy** tool on the
validation cycle for conceptual models. We observe the effects of such prototy** method …

Enterprise Engineering proved to be useful when a generally accepted intentional
description of information system is not available. A blueprint of enterprise infrastructure …

Most software development methodologies justify the use of multiple independent models to
represent all aspects at the different stages in the development process. This can make the …

While much research work was devoted to conceptual model quality validation techniques,
most of the existing tools in this domain focus on syntactic quality. Tool support for checking …

Today many companies rely on third party applications and application services for (part of)
their information systems. When applications from different parties are used together, an …