The concept of “smart city†has attracted considerable attention lately. Still, common definitions are hard to find, and there is a lack of formal models to guide their design. This paper introduces the architecture of Event-driven Smart City, the kind of city where digital artifacts...

Nowadays we may notice that SOA arrived to its maturity stage and Cloud Computing brings the next paradigm-shift regarding the software delivery business model. In such a context, we consider that there is a need for frameworks to guide the creation, execution and management of virtual...

The e-business ecosystem generates pressure on modern companies to invest massively in technologies that can bring them into the digital world of business. In their race to become a player in the global information system, companies have accumulated many layers of software that, in turn,...

The e-business ecosystem generates a pressure on modern companies to invest massively in technologies that can bring them into the digital world of business. In their race to become a player in the global information system, companies have accumulated many layers of software that, in turn,...

In the industrial age of the twenty century small firms or mass-production giants have been all organized on the classic principles defined by Smith, Taylor and Fayol. Lately, new organization theories have emerged to describe modern enterprises, process-oriented and much more agile in the new...

Stores of data and information can be the most important assets of an enterprise. Once the advent of e-commerce, eroding geographical boundaries, developing of mobile systems, increasing number of web application, distributed database systems have become reality and are widely applied in...

The e-business ecosystem generates pressure on modern companies to invest massively in technologies that can bring them into the digital world of business-to-business collaboration. In their race to become a player of the global information system, companies have accumulated many layers of...

One of the most exciting buzz-words in (e-)business literature of the last decade is virtual organization. The term "virtual" can be found in all sorts of combinations regarding the business world. From virtual products to virtual processes or virtual teams, everything that is "touched" by the...