Fast and effective distribution of software updates (a.k.a. patches) to millions of Internet users has evolved into a critical task over the last years. In this paper, we characte...
Christos Gkantsidis, Thomas Karagiannis, Milan Voj...
Presently, Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) are widely used to raise the abstraction level of the design space exploration of Application Specific Instruction-set Proces...
Ernst Martin Witte, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Oliver S...
Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
In order to lower the risk, reengineering projects aim at high reuse rates. Therefore, tasks like architectural restructuring have to be performed in a way that developed new syst...
Abstract. Covering quality aspects such as usability through the software development life cycle is challenging. These “-ilities” are generally difficult to grasp and usually ...