Understanding aspect-oriented systems, without appropriate tool support, is a difficult and a recognized problem in the research community. Surprisingly, little has been done to ...
A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's dependability. Dependability is a function of various system paramet...
Sam Malek, Nels Beckman, Marija Mikic-Rakic, Nenad...
In the development process of a B2B system it is crucial that the business experts are able to express and evaluate agreements and commitments between the partners and that the so...
Christian Huemer, Marco Zapletal, Philipp Liegl, R...
Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
All systems, regardless of how carefully they have been constructed, suffer failures. This paper focuses on developing a formal understanding of failure with respect to system imp...