— To generate plans for collecting data for data mining, an important problem is information volatility during planning: the information needed by the planning system may change ...
Design by contract is a practical methodology for developing code together with its specification. The contract consists of class invariants and method preand postconditions. As ...
Maayan Goldstein, Yishai A. Feldman, Shmuel S. Tys...
The dependencies and interrelations between classes and modules affect the maintainability of object-oriented systems. It is therefore important to capture weaknesses of the softw...
Continuous availability is a critical requirement for an important class of software systems. For these systems, runtime system evolution can mitigate the costs and risks associat...
Peyman Oreizy, Nenad Medvidovic, Richard N. Taylor
There exists a growing class of distributed applications that require adaptive middleware services, i.e., services that are able to monitor changes in the execution environment an...