Location monitoring systems are used to detect human activities and provide monitoring services, e.g., aggregate queries. In this paper, we consider an aggregate location monitori...
Currently, a number of distributed software systems development tools exist, but typically they are designed either to satisfy industrial standards – industrial perspective – o...
Alcides Calsavara, Agnaldo K. Noda, Juarez da Cost...
It is envisaged that services and applications will migrate to a cloud-computing paradigm where thin-clients on userdevices access, over the network, applications hosted in data c...
Fang Hao, T. V. Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee, Haoyu S...
In this paper we show that the initial philosophy used in designing and developing UNIX in early times has been forgotten due to “fast practices”. We question the leitmotif th...
Component-based software development has become an important approach to building complex software systems. Much research focuses on component specification to achieve the advanta...