Mismatches in QoS (Quality of Service) often appears as a major but implicit hurdle to smooth component integration. This paper presents a solution to the above problem through pr...
Several formalisms exist to express and solve decision problems. Each is designed to capture different kinds of knowledge: utilities expressing preferences, uncertainties on the en...
As the Grid moves towards adopting a service-oriented architecture built on Web services, coupling between processes will rely on secure, reliable, and transacted messages and be s...
Zhuoan Jiao, Jasmin L. Wason, Wenbin Song, Fenglia...
Design patterns are a standard means to create large software systems. However, with standard object-oriented techniques, typical implementations of such patterns are not themselv...
Aspect-oriented design needs to be systematically assessed with respect to modularity flaws caused by the realization of driving system concerns, such as tangling, scattering, and...