This paper describes SKIMA, a mediation system that gives transparent access to heterogeneous and distributed sources considering their semantics and the semantics of application ...
Analyzing commonalities and variabilities among products of a product line is an essential activity for product line asset development. A feature-oriented approach to commonality a...
The Problem Frames approach defines identifiable problem classes based on, among other things, their context and the characteristics of their domains, interfaces and requirements,...
Ellen Souza, Maria Lencastre, Renata Cristina Fara...
Distributed Constraint Optimization (DCOP) provides a rich framework for modeling multi-agent coordination problems. Existing problem domains for DCOP focus on small (<100 vari...
— Many software development methodologies are based on modeling the real world. In some of these methodologies, real-world models are gradually transformed into software models, ...