Growing maintenance costs have become a major concern for developers and users of software systems. Changeability is an important aspect of maintainability, especially in environm...
M. Ajmal Chaumun, Hind Kabaili, Rudolf K. Keller, ...
While the use of software component models has become popular in the development of desktop applications and distributed information systems, such models have not been widely used...
Quality assurance (QA) tasks, such as testing, profiling, and performance evaluation, have historically been done in-house on developer-generated workloads and regression suites. ...
Arvind S. Krishna, Douglas C. Schmidt, Atif M. Mem...
Abstract—With the growing complexity of software applications, there is an increasing demand for solutions to distribute workload into server pools. Grid Computing provides power...
Xing Zhou, Thomas Dreibholz, Martin Becke, Jobin P...
This paper presents the ARTS (Agent-oriented Robust Transactional System) model, which applies transaction concepts to provide agent developers with high-level support for agent s...