This paper is concerned with the application of Web services to distributed, cross-organizational business processes. In this scenario, it is crucial to answer the following questi...
Pervasive computing appears like a new computing era based on networks of objects and devices evolving in a real world, radically different from distributed computing, based on ne...
Abstract. In order to support the dependability analysis of a system under design in an early phase of the design process, so-called fault tolerance libraries can be created that c...
Most database systems (DBMSs) today are operating on servers equipped with magnetic disks. In our contribution, we want to motivate the use of two emerging and striking technologi...
In this paper we introduce the evolution tree - a software life-cycle model that describes software development as the continuous evolution of a software product. That is, we view...