Requirements engineering (RE) is concerned with the identification of the goals to be
achieved by the envisioned system, the operationalization of such goals into services and …

Abstract The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture
has been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia system …

The World Wide Web has succeeded in large part because its software architecture has
been designed to meet the needs of an Internet-scale distributed hypermedia application …

Software architectures shift the focus of developers from lines-of-code to coarser-grained
architectural elements and their overall interconnection structure. Architecture description …

Self-adaptive software requires high dependability robustness, adaptability, and availability.
The article describes an infrastructure supporting two simultaneous processes in self …

Continuous availability is a critical requirement for an important class of software systems.
For these systems, runtime system evolution can mitigate the costs and risks associated with …

Aqueous solutions of glycerol were hydrogenolysed at 180° C under 80 bar H2-pressure in
the presence of supported metal catalysts in an attempt to selectively produce 1, 2-and 1, 3 …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

Increasingly, software should dynamically adapt its behavior at run-time in response to
changing conditions in the supporting computing and communication infrastructure, and in …

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a family of design notations that is rapidly
becoming a de facto standard software design language. UML provides a variety of useful …