Critical to any successful performance improvement initiative is to achieve a state of continuous or institutionalized improvement. Some improvement can happen quickly, but long-t...
Understanding complex component-based systems often requires getting insight in how certain system properties, such as performance, trust, reliability, or structural attributes, c...
In this paper we present a comprehensive set of mechanisms that restore to the site administrator the capacity of enforcing Traffic Engineering (TE) policies in a multiaddressed I...
Instant messaging platforms facilitate coordination in workgroups by providing users with mutual information on their presence and availability, allowing for ad-hoc conversations ...
Most existing DHT algorithms assume that all nodes have equal capabilities. This assumption has previously been shown to be untrue in real deployments, where the heterogeneity of ...
Andrew MacQuire, Andrew Brampton, Idris A. Rai, Ni...
Composition can take place during different stages of component life cycle. We identify two main stages : design phase - components are composed into composite components for reus...
In large software and systems engineering companies like Siemens PSE there are several requirements tools in use. There is no “one tool fits all projects/departments” solution...
Matthias Heindl, Franz Reinisch, Stefan Biffl, Ale...
One area of the web services architecture yet to be standardised is that of fault tolerance for services. At the same time, WS-BPEL is moving from a de facto standard to an OASIS ...
This paper describes an experience with a Software Process Improvement (SPI) approach particularly adapted to small structures with low software maturity level (e.g. small and med...