Distributed systems comprised of autonomous self-interested entities require some sort of control mechanism to ensure the predictability of the interactions that drive them. This ...
Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, ...
Needs of multimedia systems evolved due to the evolution of their architecture which is now distributed into heterogeneous contexts. A critical issue lies in the fact that they ha...
1 Step-wise refinement (SWR) asserts that complex programs can be derived from simple programs by progressively adding features. The length of a program specification is the number...
Reliability is a key issue of the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which is widely employed in critical domains such as e-commerce and e-government. Redundancy-based fault tole...
We report on experience from teaching OO technology to undergraduate students. Before they can successfully tackle the projects they have to successfully shift to the OO paradigm,...