The assignment of aircraft arriving out of schedule to available stands at the terminal is a major issue with feasible solutions when stands are placed in the same zone, but it is very difficult to solve when candidate alternative stands are placed in different zones due to passenger movement...

The emerging service-oriented computing paradigm advocatesbuilding distributed information systems by chaining reusable servicesinstead of by programming from scratch. To do so, not only businessprocesses, but also business rules, policies and constraints need tobe encoded in a process language...