Predicate dispatch is an object-oriented (OO) language mechanism for determining the method implementation to be invoked upon a message send. With predicate dispatch, each method ...
Abstract. Technological advances and increasingly complex and dynamic application behavior argue for revisiting mechanisms that adapt logical cache block size to application charac...
Matthew A. Watkins, Sally A. McKee, Lambert Schael...
Accurate and complete requirements specifications are crucial for the design and implementation of high-quality software. Unfortunately, the articulation and verification of softw...
Ken Abernethy, John C. Kelly, Ann E. Kelley Sobel,...
In an attempt to cope with time-varying workload, traditional adaptive Time Warp protocols are designed to react in response to performance changes by altering control parameter c...
Abstract. Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discu...