A description of a data item’s provenance can be provided in different forms, and which form is best depends on the intended use of that description. Because of this, differen...
Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
In this paper we outline a new process model for security engineering. This process model extends object oriented, use case driven software development by the systematic treatment ...
Ruth Breu, Klaus Burger, Michael Hafner, Gerhard P...
Software process improvement initiatives such as metrics programs have a high failure rate during their assimilation in a software organization. Social and individual issues are s...
In-network sensor query processing systems (ISQPs), or sensor databases, have been developed to acquire, process and aggregate data from wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Because W...