When dealing with large, distributed systems that use state-of-the-art components, individual components are usually developed in parallel. As development continues, the decouplin...
We report on participatory design activities within the POLITeam project, a large project which introduces groupware into the German government. Working with a representative small...
Abstract. Data compression has been widely applied in many data processing areas. Compression methods use variable-length codes with the shorter codes assigned to symbols or groups...
Problems such as the design of distributed controllers are characterized by modularity and symmetry. However, the symmetries useful for solving them are often difficult to determ...
Abstract. Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD) provides better design solutions to problems where Object Oriented Development produces tangled and scattered designs. Neverth...