Software-intensive systems often exhibit dimensions in size and complexity that exceed the scope of comprehension of even talented, experienced system designers and analysts. With ...
In today's software engineering practices, building applications from components is the ongoing trend. What can be noticed however is that there really is not a clear consens...
Abstract— This papers explores, primarily by means of analysis, the differences that can exist between individual and aggregate loss guarantees in an environment where guarantees...
As part of a long term project aiming at empowering software maintainers with knowledge based tools we conducted an empirical study on the knowledge they use when doing maintenanc...
Maria Fernanda N. Ramal, Ricardo de Moura Meneses,...
Intelligibility can help expose the inner workings and inputs of context-aware applications that tend to be opaque to users due to their implicit sensing and actions. However, use...