The primary goal of active networking is to increase the pace of network evolution. The approach to achieving this goal, as well as the goal of enhancing customizability, is to al...
One of the main obstacles to the adoption of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) outside the research community is the lack of high level mechanisms to easily program them. This probl...
Large software projects often require a programmer to make changes to unfamiliar source code. This paper presents the results of a formative observational study of seven professio...
Robert DeLine, Amir Khella, Mary Czerwinski, Georg...
Component-oriented and service-oriented approaches have gained a strong enthusiasm in industries and academia with a particular interest for service-oriented approaches. The servic...
Designing complex multi-tier applications that must meet strict performance requirements is a challenging software engineering problem. Ideally, the application architect could de...