When architecting dependable systems, in addition to improving system dependability by means of construction (fault-tolerant and redundant mechanisms, for instance), it is also im...
Henry Muccini, Marcio S. Dias, Debra J. Richardson
Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult ...
Barry Boehm, Universityof Southern Calfornia Steven Wolf, Rockwell Collins The development and reuse of sofhvare engineering processes within an organization can be impeded by the...
Supporting security in distributed systems is becoming more important with the ongoing work in grids, distributed middlewares and web services. Decentralised security architecture...
This paper introduces a context-aware authorization architecture that is designed to augment existing network security protocols in an Intranet environment. It describes the archi...