The concept of a transaction, highly significant in the context of data bases, is broadened to make it refer to any atomic operation that changes the state of a software system or...
Most research on QoS-aware computing considers systems where code is generally partitioned into separately schedulable tasks with associated timing constraints. In sharp contrast ...
Ronghua Zhang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, John A. Stanko...
A software system interacts with its environment through system interfaces. Robustness of software systems are governed by various temporal properties related to these interfaces,...
Program componentization has been proved to be an effective way to increase the speed and cost-effectiveness of reusing, maintaining, and understanding existing software systems. ...
Established software development processes focus on delivering software within time and budget according to a set of requirements. However, practical experiences show that neither...