Platform-based development is currently the dominant development method of enterprise application, but the features provided by current mainstream enterprise application developme...
For simulation practitioners, the common steps in a simulation modeling engagement are likely familiar: problem assessment, requirements specification, model building, verificatio...
Outsourcing has become common practice in the software industry. Organizations routinely subcontract the maintenance of their software assets to specialized companies. A great cha...
The increasing availability and deployment of open source software in personal and commercial environments makes open source software highly appealing for hackers, and others who ...
In this paper, we survey the models and approaches applied to the middleware services of pervasive computing environments. Architectural styles and patterns introduced in the doma...