...application developers to develop active OODB applications that harness the full potential of OO technology. The rest of the chapter is structured as follows. In the next section, we discuss the various dimensions of active rule models and identify the base active rule model that is...

...three-state HC schemes. We also suggest a method of transferring the context, based on Mobile IP signaling. The rest of the chapter is structured as follows. In the next section, we provide an overview of HC schemes; an analysis of HC context establishment cost and a brief description...

...and the division of labor in marriage compared to sociological theories of marriage. The remainder of the chapter is structured as follows: in the next section, we briefly describe the current state of happiness research in economics. In Section 3, we outline two...

...Scandinavian countries and the continental economies and put them down to institutional variation. The chapter is structured as follows. In the next section we define the European model, which in our understanding is not only a 'social model', but also shapes incentives,...

...for the future, in order to gain new insight into the relationship between MA and OM. The remainder of the chapter is structured as follows. In the next section, we introduce the new manufacturing paradigm. In particular, we focus on Dean & Snell's (1991) term 'integrated...

...runtime-checking of assertions, and to enable a flexible and efficient usage of these advantages. The remainder of the chapter is structured as follows. In the next section we compare related work and motivate our approach. In the third section we give a brief introduction to...