: In software design, laziness is a virtue: it's better to reuse than to redo. Design patterns are a good illustration. Patterns, a major advance in software architecture, pro...
In this paper we apply the role metaphor to coordination. Roles are used in sociology as a way to structure organizations and to coordinate their behavior. In our model, the featu...
Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van d...
When developing systems based on COTS, components need to be adapted in most of the occasions to work under certain conditions which were not initially predicted by their develope...
To allow a designer to focus on the information that is relevant for a particular product development phase, is an important aspect of integral product development. Unlike current...
A new challenge in scientific computing is to merge existing simulation models to create new higher fidelity combined (often multi-level) models. While this challenge has been a...