: The IS development industry is currently undergoing profound changes. The well established, large system developers (hubs) take the lead in establishing partner networks with muc...
The design of tailorable systems is an important issue for fields of application which are characterized by differentiation and dynamics. We show how tailorability can be combined...
Copy-paste programming is dangerous as it may lead to hidden dependencies between different parts of the system. Modifying clones is not always straight forward, because we might ...
Service-based systems engineering is a recent paradigm that has proven useful for the development of multifunctional systems, whose functions may be used in different contexts and...
Distributed applications are based on algorithms which should be able to deal with time constraints. It is mandatory to express time constraints in (mathematical) models and the cu...