The cost of maintaining a software system over a long period of time far exceeds its initial development cost. Much of the maintenance cost is attributed to the time required by ne...
Software architecture is receiving increasingly attention as a critical design level for software systems. As software architecture design resources (in the form of architectural ...
We explore how fixed-point operators can be designed to interact and be composed to form autonomic control mechanisms. We depart from the idea that an operator is idempotent only ...
The design of interactive software that populates an ambient space is a complex and ad-hoc process with traditional software development approaches. In an ambient space, important ...
In this paper we describe how object-oriented language design interacts with access control in extensible systems, based on our experience in building the SPIN extensible operatin...
Wilson C. Hsieh, Przemyslaw Pardyak, Marc E. Fiucz...