The architecture of a software system has a significant impact on its quality of service (QoS) as measured by several performance metrics such as execution time, availability, th...
Methods to assess and ensure system usability are becoming increasingly important as market edge becomes less dependent on function and more dependent on ease of use, and as recog...
Predicting stability in object-oriented (OO) software, i.e., the ease with which a software item evolves while preserving its design, is a key feature for software maintenance. In...
A good architecture is a necessary condition to guarantee that the expected levels of performance, availability, fault tolerance, and scalability are achieved by the implemented s...
Giovanni Bricconi, Emma Tracanella, Elisabetta Di ...
Abstract. Reference process models capture recurrent business operations in a given domain such as procurement or logistics. These models are intended to be configured to fit the r...
Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Marlon Dumas, Florian Got...