An essential part of modern enterprise software development is metadata. Mainstream metadata formats, including XML deployment descriptors and Java 5 annotations, suffer from a n...
Critical properties of software systems, such as reliability, should be considered early in the development, when they can govern crucial architectural design decisions. A number o...
Franz Brosch, Heiko Koziolek, Barbora Buhnova, Ral...
The development of the IRIS semantic desktop platform has provided illumination of some important issues associated with the collection and manipulation of knowledge assets that a...
Application programming interfaces (APIs) inform application developers as to the functionality provided by a library and how to interact with it. APIs are a double-edged sword: i...
Distributed processing environments such as that of a traffic management network system (TMS) can be implemented easier, faster, and secure and perform better through use of auton...