Being a successful technique in software practice, Object Orientation (OO) is a hot topic in academic research fields. Among many formalisms, rCOS, a refinement calculus of obje...
Liang Zhao, Xiangpeng Zhao, Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu
Message Sequence Charts (MSC) have been traditionally used to depict execution scenarios in the early stages of design cycle. MSCs portray inter-process ( inter-object) interactio...
The growing success of wireless ad hoc networks and portable hardware devices presents many interesting problems to software engineers. Particular, coordination is a challenging t...
Marco Tulio de Oliveira Valente, Fernando Magno Qu...
Resolving heterogeneity among information systems is a crucial necessity if we wish to gain value from the many distributed resources available to us. Problems of heterogeneity in ...
We demonstrate a framework for improving the availability of cluster based Internet services. Our approach models Internet services as a collection of interconnected components, e...