Traditionally, designers organize software system as active end-points (e.g. applications) linked by passive infrastructures (e.g. networks). Increasingly, however, networks and i...
Paul Dourish, W. Keith Edwards, Jon Howell, Anthon...
Abstract Requirements Engineering (RE) research often ignores, or presumes a uniform nature of the context in which the system operates. This assumption is no longer valid in emerg...
Most applications developed today rely on a given middleware platform which governs the interaction between components, the access to resources, etc. To decide, which platform is ...
When developing concurrent software, a proper engineering practice is to choose a good level of abstraction for expressing concurrency control. Ideally, this level should provide p...
Claude Kaiser, Christophe Pajault, Jean-Fran&ccedi...
Crosscutting concerns are pervasive in embedded software, because of the various constraints imposed by the environment and the stringent QOS requirements on the system. This pape...
Thomas Cottenier, Aswin van den Berg, Tzilla Elrad