Active systems are emerging in many fields, being particularly interesting those like Active Database Management Systems which always provide some kind of reactive capabilities. I...
This paper reports the results of exploratory research to develop a pilot pattern language for systems engineers at BAE SYSTEMS. The pattern language was designed to encapsulate k...
Building realistic end user scenarios for ubiquitous computing applications entails large up-front investments. Many context adaptive applications so far fail to live up to their ...
Abstract. [Context and motivation] With increasing use of software, quality attributes grow in relative importance. Robustness is a software quality attribute that has not received...
For several decades there has been a debate in the computing sciences about the relative roles of design and empirical research, and about the contribution of design and research ...