Abstract. The integration of COTS components into a system under development entails architectural mismatches. These have been tackled, so far, at the component level, through comp...
Function point analysis(FPA) was proposedto help measure the size of a computerizedbusiness information system. It is widely used in the actual software development. However, it h...
This paper addresses one of the major problems of SOA software development: the lack of support for testing complex service-oriented systems. The research community has developed v...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...
In the rapidly developing field of sensor networks, bridging the gap between the applications and the hardware presents a major challenge. Although middleware is one solution, it ...
Carlo Curino, Matteo Giani, Marco Giorgetta, Aless...