The persistent programming systems of the 1980s offered a programming model that integrated computation and long-term storage. In these systems, reliable applications could be eng...
Alan Dearle, Graham N. C. Kirby, Stuart J. Norcros...
Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
The development of libre (free/open source) software is usually performed by geographically distributed teams. Participation in most cases is voluntary, sometimes sporadic, and of...
s In data mining, we emphasize the need for learning from huge, incomplete and imperfect data sets (Fayyad et al. 1996, Frawley et al. 1991, Piatetsky-Shapiro and Frawley, 1991). T...
Features have been recognized as important building blocks of software product lines. Unfortunately, features have been mostly confined to modeling activities as they were origina...