In this work, we propose a framework for quantifying non-functional requirements (NFRs). This framework uses quality characteristics of the execution domain, application domain an...
Intelligence analysts face the need for immediate, up-to-date information about individuals of interest. While biographies can be written and stored in text databases, we argue tha...
Although component software has emerged as one of the most significant and commercially successful technologies of the past few years, few operating systems are designed to host a...
Traceability is a property of a communications protocol that ensures that the origin and/or destination of messages can be identified. The aims of this paper are twofold. Firstly t...
Spring is a highly modular, distributed, object-oriented operating system. This paper describes the goals of the Spring system and provides overviews of the Spring object model, t...
James G. Mitchell, Jonathan Gibbons, Graham Hamilt...