Even with todays hardware improvements, performance problems are still common in many software systems. An approach to tackle this problem for component-based software architectur...
An e-contract is a contract modeled, specified, executed, controlled and monitored by a software system. Econtract evolves over a period of time and there are many scenarios of ch...
In this paper we deal with the problem of applying model checking to real programs. We verify a program without constructing the whole transition system using a technique based on...
Motivation: A few years ago, FlyBase undertook to design a new database schema to store Drosophila data. It would fully integrate genomic sequence and annotation data with bibliog...
Software process improvement requires high level formalisms for describing project-specific, organizational and quality aspects. These formalisms must be convenient not only for ...