Although program faults are widely studied, there are many aspects of faults that we still do not understand, particularly about OO software. In addition to the simple fact that o...
Despite the widespread recognition that information technology (IT) and business process are tightly connected, existing system design methods provide limited guidance on how to t...
IPCHINOOK is a design tool for distributed embedded systems. It gains leverage from the use of a carefully chosen set of design ions that raise the level of designer interaction d...
Pai H. Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partr...
The evolution of software systems over many years often leads to unnecessarily complex and in exible designs which in turn lead to a huge amount of e ort for enhancements and main...
Protection is an essential issue for the kind of heterogeneous distributed interoperable object environments, which Java and CORBA are a glimpse of. A uniform protection mechanism...