The growing movement of biologically inspired design is driven in part by the need for sustainable development and in part by the recognition that nature could be a source of inno...
The concept of self-organization is rapidly gaining importance in the area of distributed computing systems. However, we still lack the necessary means for engineering such system...
Although quality is not easy to evaluate since it is a complex concept compound by different aspects, several properties that make a good object-oriented design have been recogniz...
StoCharts have been proposed as a UML statechart extension for performance and dependability evaluation, and have been applied in the context of train radio reliability assessment...
Holger Hermanns, David N. Jansen, Yaroslav S. Usen...
This position paper describes ongoing work in which the Java-based SEESCOA component system is extended with functionality for run-time evolution. First, an assessment is made of ...