Abstract. Non-functional requirements encompass important design concerns such as schedulability, security, and communication constraints. In model-based development they non-local...
Ethan K. Jackson, Dirk Seifert, Markus Dahlweid, T...
Object-oriented analysis and design have been more concerned with system functionality, neglecting non-functional aspects; the result is code which is tangled and difficult to main...
There is a conceptual gap between the way we currently articulate requirements and the reuse-driven paradigm embodied in component-based system development. The principal challenge...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
Context-aware applications monitor changes in their operating environment and switch their behaviour to keep satisfying their requirements. Therefore, they must be equipped with th...