A process defines the way activities are organized, managed, measured, supported and improved to reach a goal. It has been shown, 15 years ago [1] that processes are software too; ...
Software systems are designed and engineered to process data. However, software is data too. The size and variety of today's software artifacts and the multitude of stakehold...
Program debugging is an extremely time-consuming process, and it takes up a large portion of software development time. In practice, debugging is still very much of an art, with t...
iary models in order to bridge the semantic gap between high-level, abstract user requirements and low-level, concrete programs and to support a stepwise refinement process. This d...
Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) virtual machines (VMs) allow users to take advantage of a multiprocessor infrastructure. Despite the advantage, SMP VMs can cause synchronization l...