Software systems should consist of simple, conceptually clean software components interacting along narrow, well-defined paths. All too often, this is not reality: complex compon...
With the proliferation of high-speed networks and networked services, provisioning differentiated services to a diverse user base with heterogeneous QoS requirements has become an ...
Based on the FOCUS theory of distributed systems (see [Broy, Stølen 01]) that are composed of interacting components we introduce a formal model of services and layered architectu...
The ability to detect object size, location and movement is essential for a visual system in either a biological or man made environment. In this paper we present a model for esti...
Email is one of the most successful computer applications yet devised. Our empirical data show however, that although email was originally designed as a communications application...