In practice, a pure top-down and refinement-based development process is not applicable. A more iterative and incremental approach is usually applied with respect to changing req...
Applications in the Pervasive Computing domain are challenged by the dynamism in which their execution environment changes, e.g. due to user mobility. As a result, applications ha...
Christian Becker, Marcus Handte, Gregor Schiele, K...
Contract and rights management – and thus property rights protection – has gained increasing importance as a quality standard in brokerage and electronic commerce environments...
: We present an extension of the programming-by-contract (PBC) paradigm to a concurrent and distributed environment. Classical PBC is characterized by absolute conformance of code ...
Anders Starcke Henriksen, Tom Hvitved, Andrzej Fil...
Fault tolerance is a constant concern in data centers where servers have to run with a minimal level of failures. Changes on the operating conditions or on server demands, and var...