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Many factors are combining to promote the use of quantitative and statistical methods by practicing software engineers. While these techniques are not new to industry in general, they are relatively new to the software industry. Consequently, there is significant uncertainty in t…
This paper describes a project, called Gravity, that defines a component model, where components provide and require services (i.e., functionality) and all component interaction occurs via services. This approach introduces service-oriented concepts into a component model and exe…
Database applications such as enterprise resource planning systems and customer relationship management systems are widely used software systems. Development and testing of database applications is difficult because the program execution depends on the persistent state stored in …
The hyperlink induced topic search algorithm, which is a method of link analysis, primarily developed for retrieving information from the Web, is extended in this paper, in order to evaluate one aspect of quality in an object-oriented model. Considering the number of discrete mes…
The development of multiagent systems (MAS) is not a trivial task. In addition, with the advances in Internet technologies, MAS are undergoing a transition from closed to open architectures composed of a huge number of autonomous agents, which operate and move across different en…
Architecture reconstruction is the reverse engineering process that aims at recovering the past design decisions that have been made about the software architecture of a system. To be a successful activity, we need to identify the proper architecturally significant information an…
The deployment of software components frequently fails because dependencies on other components are not declared explicitly or are declared imprecisely. This results in an incomplete reproduction of the environment necessary for proper operation, or in interference between incomp…
Following the success of XML, W3C envisions the semantic Web (Berners-Lee et al., 2001) as the next generation of Web in which data are given well-defined and machine-understandable semantics so that they can be processed by intelligent software agents. Semantic Web can be regard…
Semantic Web, the next generation of Web, gives data well-defined and machine-understandable meaning so that they can be processed by remote intelligent agents cooperatively. Ontology languages are the building blocks of Semantic Web as they prescribe how data are defined and rel…
Distributed application development is overly tedious, as the dynamic composition of distributed components is hard to combine with static safety with respect to types (type safety) and data (encapsulation). Achieving such safety usually goes through specific compilation to gener…
Software metrics should support managerial decision making in software projects. We explain how traditional metrics approaches, such as regression-based models for cost estimation fall short of this goal. Instead, we describe a causal model (using a Bayesian network) which incorp…
Summary form only given. Grid technologies seek to enable collaborative problem solving and resource sharing within distributed, multi-organizational virtual organizations. Two characteristics of Grid environments make the engineering of systems and applications particularly chal…
Immersive, interactive applications grouped under the concept of Immersipresence require on-line processing and mixing of multimedia data streams and structures. One critical issue seldom addressed is the integration of different solutions to technical challenges, developed indep…