Complexity is the core problem of contemporary information technology, as the "artificial complicatedness" of its artefacts is exploding. Intellectually easy and economic...
Reliability is a critical issue in many multi-organizational distributed applications, be they web services, financial protocols, scientific computing infrastructure, and software ...
Laura Bocchi, Kohei Honda, Emilio Tuosto, Nobuko Y...
Scenario-based specifications such as Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) are popular for requirement elicitation and specification. MSCs describe two distinct aspects of a system: on ...
The emergence of applications domains such as pervasive and autonomic computing has increased the need for customisation and dynamic adaptation of both distributed systems, and th...
Paul Grace, Eddy Truyen, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joo...
Middleware provides simplicity and uniformity for the development of distributed applications. However, the modularity of the architecture of middleware is starting to disintegrat...