The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Abstract. We present an approach to security requirements engineering, which makes use of special kinds of problem frames that serve to structure, characterize, analyze, and solve ...
In this paper, we propose a means to enhance an architecture description language with a description of component behavior. A notation used for this purpose should be able to expr...
This paper focuses on in-process measurements during requirements definition where measurements of processes and products are relatively difficult. However, development processes ...
Yoshiki Mitani, Tomoko Matsumura, Mike Barker, Sei...
Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...