This paper addresses issues involved when an architect explore alternative designs including non-functional requirements; in our approach, non-functional requirements are expresse...
Lihua Xu, Scott A. Hendrickson, Eric Hettwer, Hada...
Question answering (QA) systems take users’ natural language questions and retrieve relevant answers from large repositories of free texts. Despite recent progress in QA researc...
Expressing and analysing data dependency in multimedia streams is promising, since content-aware policies at a transport level would benefit from such services. In this paper we ...
In Java programs, classes are coupled to each other through the use of typed references. In order to minimize coupling without changing the executed code, interfaces can be introd...
Requirements models for large systems typically cannot be developed in a single step, but evolve in a sequence of iterations. We have developed such an iterative modeling process ...