The evolution and existence of stable trust relations have been studied extensively in the context of social theory. However, reputation systems or trust schemes have only been re...
Sameer Pai, Tanya Roosta, Stephen B. Wicker, Shank...
—The growth of the Internet in the last years has been pushed by increasing requirements in terms of capacity, security and reliability. Moreover, improvements in multimedia appl...
Abstract. Software maintainers routinely have to deal with a multitude of artifacts, like source code or documents, which often end up disconnected, due to their different represen...
Software-intensive systems evolve continuously under the pressure of new and changing requirements, generally leading to an increase in overall system complexity. In this respect,...
Middleware is often built using a layered architectural style. Layered design provides good separation of the different concerns of middleware, such as communication, marshaling, ...