Conceptual modeling techniques such as EER, ORM and to some extent the UML have been developed in the past for building information systems. These techniques or suitable extensions...
Visual description techniques are particularly important for the design of hybrid systems because specifications of such systems must usually be discussed between engineers from a ...
Efficiency with respect to energy consumption has increasingly been recognized as an important quality attribute for distributed software systems in embedded and pervasive environm...
In this paper, we introduce a component-based design methodology and present a practical analysis approach that makes use of the modular nature of component-based designs to allev...
Spoken queries are a natural medium for searching the Web in settings where typing on a keyboard is not practical. This paper describes a speech interface to the Google search eng...