Architectural based approaches to designing software are motivating changes in the way software is developed for safety-critical systems. These new approaches allow developers to d...
— In this paper we define a new metric for quantifying the degree of anonymity collectively afforded to users of an anonymous communication system. We show how our metric, based...
: Today, enterprises are forced to continuously optimize their business as well as service processes. In this context the process-centered alignment of information systems is cruci...
Bela Mutschler, Johannes Bumiller, Manfred Reicher...
We are concerned with the problem of defining a complex, hybrid, agent based discrete system in a modular way. The modularity results from looking at the system from a number of di...
Marek A. Bednarczyk, Wieslaw Pawlowski, Luca Berna...
: From a maintenance perspective, only software that is well understood can evolve in a controlled and high-quality manner. Software evolution itself is a knowledge-driven process ...