Cloud Computing is a topic that has gained momentum in the last years. Current studies show that anincreasing number of companies is evaluating the promised advantages and considering making use ofcloud services. In this paper we investigate the phenomenon of cloud computing and its importance...

This paper proposes model-driven techniques to extend IBM’s SOMA method towardsmigrating legacy systems into Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). The proposal exploreshow graph-based querying and transformation techniques enable the integration oflegacy assets into a new SOA. The presented...

This book gives an overview of the state of the art in five different approaches to social science simulation on the individual level. The volume contains microanalytical simulation models designed for policy implementation and evaluation, multilevel simulation methods designed for detecting...