Requirements for product families are expressed in terms of commonality and variability. This distinction allows early identification of an appropriate software architecture and ...
Andreas Classen, Patrick Heymans, Robin C. Laney, ...
This paper proposes a development methodology for distributed applications based on the principles and concepts of the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). The paper identifies phases ...
Many aspect-oriented middleware platforms support run-time aspect weaving, but do not support coordinating distributed changes to a set of aspects at run-time. A distributed chang...
Eddy Truyen, Nico Janssens, Frans Sanen, Wouter Jo...
By definition, a heavyweight network service requires a significant amount of computation to complete its task. Providing a heavyweight service is challenging for a number of reaso...
—We introduce a simple image descriptor referred to as the image signature. We show, within the theoretical framework of sparse signal mixing, that this quantity spatially approx...