Quality and risk concerns currently limit the application of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software components to non-critical applications. Software metrics can quantify factor...
Scalability of software engineering methods can be improved by application of the methods to individual components instead of complete systems. This is, however, possible only if ...
Abstract. The Computational Grid has promised a great deal in support of innovative applications, particularly in science and engineering. However, developing applications for this...
In method-based software development, software engineers create artifacts based on the heuristic rules of the adopted method. Most CASE tools, however, do not actively assist soft...
Software Transactional Memories (STMs) are emerging as a highly attractive programming model, thanks to their ability to mask concurrency management issues to the overlying applic...
Roberto Palmieri, Francesco Quaglia, Paolo Romano,...