Abstract. Component-based software engineering is useful for embedded applications such as robotics. However, heavyweight component systems such as CORBA overstrain the ressources ...
Several different kinds of performance models can be generated from sets of scenarios that describe typical responses of a system, and their use of resources. The Core Scenario Mod...
A collective obligation is an obligation directed to a group of agents so that the group, as a whole, is obliged to achieve a given task. The problem investigated here is the impac...
Lattice-based approaches have been widely used in spoken document retrieval to handle the speech recognition uncertainty and errors. Position Specific Posterior Lattices (PSPL) an...
We analyze the main motivations that lead to the present need for supporting continuous software evolution, and discuss some of the reasons for change requirements. Achieving softw...