Abstract. Software performance engineering deals with the consideration of quantitative analysis of the behaviour of software systems from the early development phases in the life ...
Model-driven development of software-intensive systems aims at designing systems by stepwise model refinement. In order to create software product lines by model-driven development...
Eliciting requirements for a proposed system inevitably involves the problem of handling undesirable information about customer’s needs, including inconsistency, vagueness, redun...
Recent twin decisions of the European Patent Office's Technical Board of Appeal have shifted its stance on software patents significantly. In this paper, I explore the backgr...
As the properties of components have gradually become clearer, attention has started to turn to the architectural issues which govern their interaction and composition. In this pa...