Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
We are developing tools to support a conversational metaphor for requirements definition and analysis. Our conversational model consists of three components: (1) a hypertextual re...
In this paper, we propose a fine-grained coupling metrics suite for aspect-oriented (AO) systems, to measure software changes during system evolution. We also present a correlati...
The information infrastructure in today's businesses consists of many interoperating autonomous systems. Changes to a single system can therefore have an unexpected impact on ...
It has been widely acknowledged that the aggregate interference at the receiver for various practical communication channels can often deviate markedly from the classical additive ...