The era of distributed systems is upon us. Middlewarespecific concerns, and especially the distribution concern, which is the core of any middleware-mediated application, are addr...
Web applications can be classified as hybrids between hypermedia and information systems. They have a relatively simple distributed architecture from the user viewpoint, but a comp...
Over recent years, "Internet-able" applications have been used to support domains where distributed functionality is essential. This flexibility is also pertinent in situ...
The work presented here is part of a project that aims at the definition of a methodology for developing realtime software systems based on UML. In fact, being relatively easy to ...
This paper describes a pattern-based technique for systematic development of UML models of secure systems using access control. Access control is viewed and specified as a design...