Networks of Workstations (NOW) have become important and cost-effective parallel platforms for scientific computations. In practice, a NOW system is heterogeneous and non-dedicat...
Abstract. Product family architectures need to be captured much like “regular” software architectures. Unfortunately, representations for product family architectures are scarc...
Many software projects have failed because their requirements were poorly negotiated among stakeholders. Requirements negotiation is more critical than other factors such as tools...
For the past two years the Moving Pictures Expert Group (MPEG), a working group of ISO/IEC, have been developing MPEG-7 [1], the "Multimedia Content Description Interface"...
Machine-understandable metadata is providing the foundation for next-generationframeworks that enable automated construction ofserver-side Java applications. Suchapplications are ...