This paper traces the evolution of the Grid and discusses the potential of the Grid as a future infrastructure adapted to the dynamics of global business systems
Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...
Data mining is the process of deriving knowledge from data. The architecture of a data mining system plays a significant role in the efficiency with which data is mined. It is pro...
: Refactoring is a process meant to improve the internal quality of software systems. However, while on one hand, the guidelines for this delicate process are still empirical and q...
This paper describes how design information, in our case UML specifications, can be used to evolve a software system and validate the consistency of such an evolution. This work c...