This paper presents research on the application of the means-end chain (MEC) framework for investigating customers cognitive structure regarding community applications. It is argu...
Abstract. Many long-lived and distributed systems must remain available yet evolve over time, due to, e.g., bugfixes, feature extensions, or changing user requirements. To facilit...
We present a general framework for the analysis of quantitative and qualitative properties of reactive systems, based on a notion of weighted transition systems. We introduce and ...
In this paper we present a new approach to data modelling, called the concept-oriented model (CoM), and describe its main features and characteristics including data semantics and ...
—In this paper, we classify multitolerant systems, i.e., systems that tolerate multiple classes of faults and provide potentially different levels of tolerance to them in terms o...