Today, one of the main challenges of the Business-to-Business (B2B) E-Commerce solutions is to improve the business processes that organizations carry out with their suppliers and customers. B2B relationships require the management of public business processes, which span the organizational…

Ontologies serve as a mean to establish a conceptually concise basis for communicating knowledge for many purposes. Within the information integration area, ontologies are useful to solve heterogeneity problems. They provide a set of knowledge terms, including the vocabulary, the…

Generally, the interactivity provided by web applications is carried out through surfing, as a result of a server’s response at the request of a workstation. This is an essential characteristic of this type of software, although in some circumstances it…

The concept of “approximate” searching has applications in a vast number of fields. Some examples are non-traditional databases (e. g. storing images, fingerprints or audio clips, where the concept of exact search is of no use and we search instead…

blic Keys Schemes usually generate two pairs of keys that bear some mathematical relation-usually, a relation of the field known as Number Theory. Identifying a key from another that is given is a problem of great difficulty. This paper presents…

Although researchers noted the importance of effective communication among stakeholders, it continues to be a challenge for requirements engineering. Communication can be considered as a management tool since communication allows organisation’s personnel to produce a cohesive enterprise view. In this…

Software engineering has entered a new era, the Internet and its associated technologies require a different conceptual framework for building and understanding software solutions.
Users ask to develop applications more rapidly, and software engineers need to ensamble systems from preexisting…