The modelling of B2B scenarios focuses on conversations between key partners to establish a common business context for their collaboration. With the prevalence of Web services, attention has turned to service choreographies as a means of message exchange ordering between collaborating...

[Abstract]: The contribution of small enterprises to the software industry is marked, but the level of understanding of the ways in which they can survive, grow and improve is limited. In particular, there has been a lack of information on the long-term outcomes of process improvement...

Trends that have contributed to the globalisation of the software engineering industry include virtual collaborative teams, off-shore outsourcing, and international migration of IT professionals. These three trends and the international spread of software engineering standards and methodologies...