Architectural considerations play a key role in the success of any software-based development project. Architecture evaluation is an early risk reduction method for identifying ri...
In a component-based system components are basic computation units implementing specific business functions, and their interactions are explicitly represented by connectors. If th...
Abstract. Ada 95 has been the first standardized language to include distribution in the core language itself. However, the set of features required by the Distributed Systems Ann...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
Revision control systems are a major means to manage versions and variants of today's software systems. An ongoing problem in these systems is how to resolve conflicts when me...