Surprising as it may seem, many of the early adopters of the object-oriented paradigm already face a number of problems typically encountered in large-scale legacy systems. Softwa...
The assessment of the changeability of software systems is of major concern for buyers of the large systems found in fast-moving domains such as telecommunications. One way of app...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
We present a new metaphor for learning anatomy - the 3d puzzle. With this metaphor students learn anatomic relations by assembling a geometric model themselves. For this purpose, a...
We define two new classes of shared-memory objects: ratifiers, which detect agreement, and conciliators, which ensure agreement with some probability. We show that consensus can...
In this paper we examine the dissemination of availability reports about resources in mobile peer-topeer networks, where vehicles, pedestrian or sensors communicate with each othe...