Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
Studying the evolution of long lived processes such as the development history of a software system or the publication history of a research community, requires the analysis of a ...
In safety-critical and high-reliability systems, software development and maintenance are costly endeavors. The cost can be reduced if software errors can be identified through au...
Modern approaches in software development propose the use of software architectures to help handle the complexity of large software system developments. An important technique to ...
Due to the rapid growth in the size of the web, web search engines are facing enormous performance challenges. The larger engines in particular have to be able to process tens of ...