Use cases have become an important tool in software engineering. There has been much focus on the diagram notation but relatively little on use-case descriptions. As part of a welc...
Message passing is a very popular style of parallel programming, used in a wide variety of applications and supported by many APIs, such as BSD sockets, MPI and PVM. Its importance...
Despite the increasing maturity of model-driven development (MDD), some research challenges remain open in the field of information systems (IS). For instance, there is a need to i...
We present a QoS management framework that enables us to quantitatively measure QoS, and to analytically plan and allocate resources. In this model, end users' quality prefer...
Chen Lee, John P. Lehoczky, Ragunathan Rajkumar, D...
A software framework is a technology that enables software reuse, potentially yielding rich dividends but requiring significant longterm investment. However, a framework is not a ...