Software development can be thought of as the evolution act requirements into a concrete software system. The evolution, achieved through a successive series of elaborations and r...
Jamie L. Smith, Shawn A. Bohner, D. Scott McCricka...
Recently, we have proposed a comprehensive agent-based e-commerce system. While UML formalized, it lacked details how basic functions – e.g. user request to purchase a given pro...
Maciej Gawinecki, Maria Ganzha, Pawel Kobzdej, Mar...
Abstract—Context-aware applications adapt to changing computing environments or changing user circumstances/tasks. Context information that supports such adaptations is provided ...
: This paper discusses the issues and promising approaches in (1) obtaining rigorous specifications of the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements associated with application functio...
— A large and diverse consortium of grid clusters, as can be found in a university setting, requires a flexible authorization model that is scalable, extensible and easy to admi...
Beth A. Kirschner, Thomas J. Hacker, William A. Ad...