Abstract. A self-organising system functions without central control, and through contextual local interactions. Components achieve a simple task individually, but a complex collec...
Giovanna Di Marzo Serugendo, Noria Foukia, Salima ...
In software engineering it is widely acknowledged that the usage of metrics at the initial phases of the object oriented software life cycle can help designers to make better decis...
M. Esperanza Manso, Marcela Genero, Mario Piattini
Abstract. High-level programming languages offer significant expressivity but provide little or no guarantees about resource utilization. Resource-bounded languages provide stron...
A key aspect of the Object-Oriented (OO) approach is that a designer can enrich an OO system by providing suitable (re-)definitions for some of the methods of the given system. A...
Database engines and database-centric applications have become complex software systems. Ensuring bug-free database services is therefore a very difficult task. Whenever possible...