The design of large-scale, distributed, performance-sensitive systems presents numerous challenges due to their networkcentric nature and stringent quality of service (QoS) requir...
Relationships between objects are almost as important to designs as the objects themselves. Most programming languages do not support relationships well, so programmers must imple...
: Software evolves as requirements or technologies change. Tremendous efforts are often needed to support software evolution as evolution may involve reverse engineering and subseq...
Chung-Horng Lung, Qiang Zhao, Hui Xu, Heine Mar, P...
With the incresing presence on the Web of hypermedia contents with temporal constraints (time-based hypermedia), such as multimedia presentations, there must be a precise form to ...
: After over a decade of use, design patterns continue to find new areas of application. In previous work, we presented a contract formalism for specifying patterns precisely, and...
Neelam Soundarajan, Jason O. Hallstrom, Adem Delib...