A mechanistic view of software component assembly implies exact matching and fitting of the particular components. We argue that components for large-scale software construction s...
Query optimizers that explore a search space exhaustively using transformation rules usually apply all possible rules on each alternative, and stop when no new information is prod...
Abstract. Definitions of the concepts derived from the goal concept (including functional and nonfunctional goal, hardgoal, and softgoal) used in requirements engineering are discu...
As more and more information is available on the web, it is a problem that many web resources are not accessible, i.e., are not usable for users with special needs. For example, f...
Abstract E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few examples that demonstrate how WWW sites are evolving from hypermedia information reposito...