Predictability is crucial in critical applications and systems. Therefore, we examine sources of uncertainty for each of the four phases that span a project lifecycle, from initial...
This paper presents an approach to the study of cognitive activities in collaborative software development. This approach has been developed by a multidisciplinary team made up of...
Pierre N. Robillard, Patrick d'Astous, Franç...
In many domains, agent-based system modeling competes with equation-based approaches that identify system variables and evaluate or integrate sets of equations relating these varia...
The Polar project has the aim of designing a parallel, ODMG compatible object database server. This paper describes the server requirements and investigates issues in designing a s...
We investigate the well-known PRAM model of parallel computation as a practical parallel programming model. The two components of this project are a general-purpose PRAM programmin...