Recent advancements in communication systems enable the collaboration of virtual software design teams, breaking the barriers of time and distance. In this paper we address a criti...
Daniela E. Damian, Mildred L. G. Shaw, Brian R. Ga...
Porting large applications to distributed computing platforms is a challenging task from a software engineering perspective. The Computational Grid has gained tremendous popularit...
Gene Cooperman, Henri Casanova, Jim Hayes, Thomas ...
This paper presents the ARTS (Agent-oriented Robust Transactional System) model, which applies transaction concepts to provide agent developers with high-level support for agent s...
As demand for grid and cloud computing solutions increases, the need for user oriented software to provide access to theses resources also increases. Until recently the use of com...
Casey Rathbone, Lizhe Wang, Gregor von Laszewski, ...
A well-known bad code smell in refactoring and software maintenance is duplicated code, or code clones. A code clone is a code fragment that is identical or similar to another. Un...