Abstract. This paper discusses schema evolution in software engineering databases. After a study of existing approaches, we show that these approaches do not satisfy software engin...
Atomicity is a desirable property that safeguards application consistency for service compositions. A service composition exhibiting this property could either complete or cancel ...
Design patterns are typically defined informally, albeit in a standard format, and have to be programmed by the software designer into each new application. Thus although patterns ...
Kung-Kiu Lau, Ioannis Ntalamagkas, Cuong M. Tran, ...
Abstract. Context-awareness refers to a computing model where application behavior is driven by a continually-changing environment. Mobile computing poses unique challenges to cont...
The success of UML and more generally, of the model driven approach, has led to a proliferation of models, representing various systems, but the description of large applications ...