All but the most briefly used systems must evolve as their mission and roles change over time. Evolution in the context of large distributed systems is extraordinarily complex bec...
A strong level of trust in the software running on an embedded processor is a prerequisite for its widespread deployment in any high-risk system. The expanding field of software p...
Joseph Zambreno, Alok N. Choudhary, Rahul Simha, B...
Wide-area networks provide an easy access to many different distributed and heterogeneous data sources. The development of automated operating tools is still complex, particularly...
Jean-Paul Arcangeli, Sebastien Leriche, Marc Pante...
The focus of typical architectural models is the description of large systems. Even though these systems are usually distributed, aspects of distributed systems are only addressed...
The requirements of specific applications and services are often over estimated when ontologies are designed and built. This sometimes results in many ontologies being too large fo...