Components are nowadays considered the next step in information system development. Components are assumed to foster reuse and flexibility, and reduce the complexity of distribute...
Nico H. Lassing, Daan B. B. Rijsenbrij, Johannes C...
Abstract. This paper presents a methodology for the design of a reconfigurable computing system applied to a complex problem in molecular Biology: the protein folding problem. An e...
Nilton B. Armstrong, Heitor S. Lopes, Carlos R. Er...
Outsourcing has become common practice in the software industry. Organizations routinely subcontract the maintenance of their software assets to specialized companies. A great cha...
Most programs currently written by humans are object-oriented ones. Two of the greatest benefits of object oriented programming are the separation of interface from implementation,...
There is an increasing tendency in sensor networks (and related networked embedded systems) to push more complexity and `intelligence' into end-nodes. This in turn leads to a ...