The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivatea methodology, called Tropos, for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion ...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
This paper describes a case study where SofTrack a Software Defect Report and Tracking System - was implemented using internet technology in a geographically distributed organizat...
This paper describes the application of a measurement based power analysis technique for an embedded DSP processor. An instruction-level power model for the processor has been dev...
Mike Tien-Chien Lee, Vivek Tiwari, Sharad Malik, M...
Despite extensive testing in the development phase, residual defects can be a great threat to dependability in the operational phase. This paper studies the utility of lowcost, ge...