Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Abstract—Complex networks consisting of humans and software services, such as Web-based social and collaborative environments, typically require flexible and context-based inter...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...
IPCHINOOK is a design tool for distributed embedded systems. It gains leverage from the use of a carefully chosen set of design ions that raise the level of designer interaction d...
Pai H. Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partr...
While a designer’s focus used to be the design of non-interactive elements such as graphics or animations, today’s designers deal with various levels of interactivity such as ...