One of the most important issues in the software development is how to guarantee that the software satisfies the quality defined in the requirement specification. This paper pr...
Quality is a fundamental concept in software and information system development. It is also a complex and elusive concept. A large number of quality models have been developed for...
Hong Zhu, Yanlong Zhang, Qingning Huo, Sue Greenwo...
Critical components of a distributed system must be replicated to achieve high availability and fault tolerance. Current faulttolerant CORBA infrastructures have concentrated on m...
Wenbing Zhao, Louise E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith
In the application domain of online information services such as online census information, health records and real-time stock quotes, there are at least two fundamental challenge...
Universal access to information and data is an important goal of current research. Previously different forms of information and data, captured by different devices or held on dif...
Many organizations would benefit from enterprise-wide, shared information systems. It is common for these organizations to have in place a number of smaller information systems, e...
Genetic algorithms (GAs) are efficient non-gradient stochastic search methods. Parallel GAs are proposed to overcome the deficiencies of sequential GAs, such as low speed and aptn...
Baowen Xu, Yu Guan, Zhenqiang Chen, Karl R. P. H. ...
Legacy systems are often business critical and are associated with high maintenance costs. In this paper, we present an overview of a method, Renaissance, which aims to manage the...