Maintenance is a time consuming activity within software development and it requires a good understanding of the system in question. It is hard or even impossible to understand po...
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The growing complexity of hardware optimizations employed by multiprocessors leads to subtle distinctions among allowed and disallowed behaviors, posing challenges in specifying th...
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A distributed software system's deployment architecture can have a significant impact on the system's dependability. Dependability is a function of various system paramet...
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Maintenance engineers need to understand component dependencies in a system to successfully modify component implementations. Interaction dependencies are especially hard to under...
Expressing rules in controlled natural language can bring us closer to the vision of the Semantic Web since rules can be written in the notation of the application domain and are u...