Recent developments in the field of object-based fault tolerance and the advent of the first OMG FTCORBA compliant middleware raise new requirements for the design process of dist...
Evolution of software systems is characterized by inevitable changes of software and increasing software complexity, which in turn may lead to huge maintenance and development cos...
In the context of computer programming, the importance of computer assistance is being understood by many developer communities. Developers are e.g. using the same well known expre...
UML sequence diagrams are widely used during requirements analysis and design for specifying the expected message exchanges among a set of objects in various scenarios for the pro...
Patches to modern operating systems, including bug fixes and security updates, and the reboots and downtime they require, cause tremendous problems for system users and administr...
Andrew Baumann, Jonathan Appavoo, Robert W. Wisnie...