This paper presents the main concepts of the IST Project FAIN "Future Active IP Networks" [10], a three-year collaborative research project, whose main task is to develo...
Alex Galis, Bernhard Plattner, Jonathan M. Smith, ...
Through his law, "adding manpower to a late software project makes it later," Brooks asserts that the assimilation, training, and intercommunication costs of adding new ...
Laurie A. Williams, Anuja Shukla, Annie I. Ant&oac...
The quality of software engineering projects often suffers due to the large gap between the way stakeholders present their requirements and the way analysts capture and express tho...
Despite several research studies, the effective analysis of policy based systems remains a significant challenge. Policy analysis should at least (i) be expressive (ii) take accou...
Robert Craven, Jorge Lobo, Jiefei Ma, Alessandra R...
Patterns are concise, but rich in semantic, representation of data. The approaches proposed in the literature to cope with pattern management problems usually deal with a single ty...