During software evolution, adaptive, and corrective maintenance are common reasons for changes. Often such changes cluster around key components. It is therefore important to anal...
James M. Bieman, Anneliese Amschler Andrews, Helen...
Computer science and engineering nowadays appears to be challenged (and driven) by technological progress and quantitative growth. Among the technological progress challenges are ...
The security features of current middleware platforms, like Enterprise Java Beans and CORBA, are either simple and limited or complex and difficult to use. In both cases are the ...
Anders Andersen, Gordon S. Blair, Per Harald Myrva...
Contracts in the real world often rest upon a notion of responsibility, by which parties commit to the fulfilment of particular imperatives embedded in the contract. Responsibili...
Martin J. Kollingbaum, Timothy J. Norman, Chris Re...
This paper introduces the notion of a software decelerator, to be used in logic-centric system architectures. Functions are offloaded from logic to a processor, accepting a speed ...
Eric Keller, Gordon J. Brebner, Philip James-Roxby