To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...
Peer-to-peer communication is emerging as one of the most potentially disruptive technologies in the networking sector. If the interest in such technologies as Napster, Morpheus a...
In this paper, we present techniques and algorithms to improve the performance of various communication patterns on message-passing platforms where, for reasons of safety, user-le...
Formal verification methods are used only sparingly in software development. The most successful methods to date are based on the use of model checking tools. To use such he user ...
—Formal methods have yet to achieve wide industrial acceptance for several reasons. They are not well integrated into hed industrial software processes, their application require...