When designing a plant for continuous or semi-continuous processes, such as paper pulp or petrochemical production systems, engineers face very complex tasks, which are only in pa...
: This paper describes an approach to integrate UCD activities into the existing Software Engineering practices and processes. The aim is to use the outcomes of UCD activities thro...
Abstract. Software designs equipped with specification of dependability techniques can help engineers to develop critical systems. In this work, we start to envision how a softwar...
Components-based development is promising in improving software development productivity and software quality by re-using existing well-tested software components. However, one of...
The paper introduces a taxonomy of the possible coordination models for mobile agent applications and evaluates their impact in the design of a widely distributed application in t...