Enabling a domain expert to maintain his own knowledge in a Knowledge Based System has long been an ideal for the Knowledge Engineering community. In this paper we report on our ex...
The architecture is the fundamental framework for designing and implementing large scale software, and the ability to trace and control its evolution is essential. However, many t...
Grid applications must increasingly self-adapt dynamically to changing environments. In most cases, adaptation has been implemented in an ad hoc fashion, on a perapplication basis...
Shang-Wen Cheng, David Garlan, Bradley R. Schmerl,...
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...
Assertions, or more generally “Programming by contract”, have gained widespread acceptance in the computer science community as a means for correct program development. Howeve...