Mastering the complexity of programs and systems, particularly distributed systems, should lead to signi cant improvements in program and system understanding. In this paper we pr...
Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, Thomas Kunz,...
Software artifacts usually have static program constraints and these constraints should be satisfied in each reuse. In addition to this, the developers are also required to satisf...
There is an urgent need to provide a sound generic framework for method and tool integration, where many differing notations are used, software development is distributed and mana...
In large-scale clusters and computational grids, component failures become norms instead of exceptions. Failure occurrence as well as its impact on system performance and operatio...
Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. Thi...