The dynamic nature of Service-Oriented Architectures challenges traditional systems management practices which tend to be static in nature. We propose a goal-oriented, agent-based...
Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Imad Abdallah, Jun L...
Extraction-Transformation-Loading (ETL) tools are pieces of software responsible for the extraction of data from several sources, their cleansing, customization and insertion into...
In this paper we study how roles can be added to patterns modelling relationships in Object Oriented programming. Relationships can be introduced in programming languages either by...
Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert van der Tor...
Symmetry reduction holds great promise to counter the state explosion problem. However, currently it is “conducting a life on the fringe”, and is not widely applied, mainly du...
In a software system, it is inevitable that components will occasionally fail to produce acceptable results and become unavailable to serve its clients. Replication is the techniq...