Distributed infrastructures are becoming more and more diverse in nature. An application may often need to be redeployed in various scenarios. Ideally, given an application design...
This paper is concerned with the application of Web services to distributed, cross-organizational business processes. In this scenario, it is crucial to answer the following questi...
Function Point Analysis (FPA) is a well-known method to measure the functionality of a system, from the user’s point of view. Both Albrecht’s original model and a local varian...
Composite systems generally comprise heterogeneous components whose specifications are developed by many development participants. The requirements of such systems are invariably ...
Abstract. Large-scale distributed computing applications require concurrent programming models that support modular and compositional software development. The actor model supports...
Wei-Jen Wang, Carlos A. Varela, Fu-Hau Hsu, Cheng-...