Current IT developments like component-based development and Web services have emerged as effective ways of building complex enterprise-scale information systems and providing enterprise application integration. To aid this process, platforms such as .NET and WebSphere have become standards in...

Hypermedia systems may be one of the most significant contributions to the Internet in recent years. This powerful new technology has revolutionized the delivery of e-content through the Internet. However, as the needs of users have changed, the hypermedia systems themselves have also changed....

Foreword / James J. Odell -- Preface / Brian Henderson-Sellers, Paolo Giorgini -- 1. Agent-oriented methodologies : an introduction / Paolo Giorgini, Brian Henderson-Sellers -- 2. Tropos : a requirements-driven methodology for agent-oriented software / Paolo Giorgini, Manuel Kolp, John...

This publication provides all the information required to understand the PISA 2003 educational performance database and perform analyses in accordance with the complex methodologies used to collect and process the data. It enables researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to...

This publication provides all the information required to understand the PISA 2003 educational performance database and perform analyses in accordance with the complex methodologies used to collect and process the data. It enables researchers to both reproduce the initial results and to...