— Updating software in vehicle Electronic Control Units (ECUs) will become a mandatory requirement for a variety of reasons, for examples, to update functionality of an existing ...
—Recently, there has been a proliferation of service-based systems, i.e. software systems that are composed of autonomous services, but can also use software code. In order to su...
Abstract. The idea of component-based software engineering was proposed more that 40 years ago, yet only few robotics software frameworks follow these ideas. The main problem with ...
Diversity of skills is good for society, it is also good in problem solving because different people see a problem from several perspectives, so diversity should be good for softw...
Fred Brooks’ retelling of the biblical story of the Tower of Babel offers many insights into what makes building software difficult. The difficulty, according to common interp...
Situated software systems are an emerging class of systems that are predominantly pervasive, embedded, and mobile. They are marked with a high degree of unpredictability and dynam...
Deshan Cooray, Sam Malek, Roshanak Roshandel, Davi...
Most practising software architects operate within an architecture framework which is a coordinated set of viewpoints, models and notations prescribed for them. Whereas architectu...
Rich Hilliard, Ivano Malavolta, Henry Muccini, Pat...
: Developing Ambient Intelligence applications is a very complex task since it implies dealing with low-level software and hardware resources. The use of a middleware platform may ...
: There are many examples of augmented objects in the literature. Augmented objects should provide intelligence to the ambient where they are located and also they must require a l...
: During software development projects there is always a particular working “product” that is generated but rarely managed: the knowledge and experience that team members acqui...