Abstract. Evaluating the implications of an architecture design early in the software development lifecycle is important in order to reduce costs of development. Reliability is an ...
Sampling has been successfully used to identify performance optimization opportunities. We would like to apply similar techniques to check program correctness. Unfortunately, samp...
Maintenance is the dominant source of downtime at high availability sites. Unfortunately, the dominant mechanism for reducing this downtime, cluster rolling upgrade, has two short...
The realization of multimedia systems still heavily relies on building monolithic systems that need to be reengineered for every change in the application and little of which can ...
According to Szyperski, “a software component is a unit of composition with contractually specified interfaces and explicit context dependencies only”. But it is well known tha...