Web services are often employed to create wide distributed evolvable applications from existing components that constitute a service-based software system. ServiceOriented Archite...
Over the last decade, the relevance of performance evaluation in the early stages of the software development life-cycle has been steadily rising. We honestly believe that the int...
This paper describes a new approach to visualization of scenarios within the use case-based engineering of functional requirements – the so-called Video Camera metaphor. The Vid...
Smart environments (e.g., airports, hospitals, stadiums, and other physical spaces using ubiquitous computing to empower many mobile people) provide novel challenges for usability...
Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...