The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...
Runtime adaptation is recognized as a viable way for a serviceoriented system to meet QoS requirements in its volatile operating environment. In this paper we propose a methodolog...
The globalization of software development helps to reduce business cost by outsourcing software design and development tasks. However, it also poses new challenges on the collabor...
Jing Dong, Sheng Yang, Dushyant S. Lad, Yongtao Su...
Pervasive computing appears like a new computing era based on networks of objects and devices evolving in a real world, radically different from distributed computing, based on ne...
Abstract. Complex business processes are usually realized by specifying the integration and interaction of smaller modular software components. For example, hitherto monolithic ent...
Martin Wimmer, Martina-Cezara Albutiu, Alfons Kemp...