It is becoming increasingly clear that we are entering a new era in systems software. As the age-old tension between structure and performance acquiesces, we can finally venture b...
This paper briefly describes the design of a dynamic adaptation management framework exploiting the concepts provided by Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) -in particular ...
When analyzing the evolution history of a software project, we wish to develop results that generalize across projects. One approach is to analyze design patterns, permitting char...
Tradeoffs are an important part of engineering security. Protocol security is important. So are efficiency and cost. This paper provides an early framework for handling such aspec...
This paper reports on some practical work undertaken to assess the use of a formalised configuration language to support industrial system development and evolution. The language a...