A range of database services are being offered on clusters of workstations today to meet the demanding needs of applications with voluminous datasets, high computational and I/O r...
The explicit documentation of the rationale of design decisions is a practice generally encouraged but rarely implemented in industry because of a variety of inhibitors. Known met...
In this paper we are trying to clarify, with the aid of some semiotic notions, the confusions that lie around the widely used terms “analysis model” and “design model” in s...
The domain of digital rights management (DRM) is currently lacking a generic architecture that supports interoperability and reuse of specific DRM technologies. This lack of arch...
Sam Michiels, Kristof Verslype, Wouter Joosen, Bar...
This paper presents a separation of concerns approach to solve the tangling problem of functional and Quality of Service (QoS) concerns in traditional Component-based Software Eng...