The widespread use of mobile and wireless computing platforms is leading to a growing interest on dependability issues. Several research studies have been conducted on dependabili...
As application semantics becomes more complex and dynamic in IT systems, it is necessary to engineer the application semantics in its own lifecycle of development parallel to syste...
This paper proposes a theory of encapsulation, taking the internationally standardized definition of that term and establishing a relationship between subsets and the elements tha...
Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
In the modern design environments, different modules, available in existent libraries, may obey different architectural styles and execution models. Reaching a well– behaved com...