Over the past 15 years there has been increasing recognition that careful attention to the design of a system’s software architecture is critical to satisfying its requirements ...
The Nix software deployment system is based on the paradigm of transparent source/binary deployment: distributors deploy descriptors that build components from source, while clien...
A long-standing goal of software engineering is to construct software that is easily modified and extended. Recent advances in software design techniques, such as aspect-oriented ...
Year after year, the frequency of updated releases of software continues to increase. Without an automated install process, the result is either that a system installs software wi...
Modelling and analysing distributed and mobile software systems is a challenging task. PEPA nets—coloured stochastic Petri nets—are a recently introduced modelling formalism w...