The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
The constant increase in use of geographic data in different application domains has resulted in large amounts of data stored in spatial databases and in the desire of data mining....
Vania Bogorny, Paulo Martins Engel, Luis Otá...
Background: Agile is an iterative approach to software development that relies on strong collaboration and automation to keep pace with dynamic environments. We have successfully ...
David W. Kane, Moses M. Hohman, Ethan G. Cerami, M...
—For software, the costs of failures are not clearly understood. Often, these costs disappear in the costs of testing, the general developments costs, or the operating expenses. ...
Runtime quality of software, such as availability and throughput, depends on architectural factors and execution environment characteristics (e.g. CPU speed, network latency). Alth...