Abstract. It is an important and intriguing issue to know the quantitative similarity of large software systems. In this paper, a similarity metric between two sets of source code ...
Design decisions for complex, component-based systems impact multiple quality of service (QoS) properties. Often, means to improve one quality property deteriorate another one. In ...
Anne Martens, Danilo Ardagna, Heiko Koziolek, Raff...
Embedded systems must be cost-effective. This imposes strict requirements on the resource consumption of their applications. It is therefore desirable to be able to determine the ...
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) for distributed computing has become increasingly popular due to the great advantage that distributed applications can be rapidly synthesized w...
Chang-Hai Jiang, Hai Hu, Kai-Yuan Cai, Dazhi Huang...
We describe a general methodology, socio-cognitive engineering, for the design of human-centred technology. It integrates software, task, knowledge and organizational engineering ...
Mike Sharples, N. Jeffery, Benedict du Boulay, Der...