Moodle represents a great contribution to the educational world since it provides an evolving
platform for Virtual Learning Management Systems (VLMS) that became a standard de facto …

Software architectures capture early design decisions about a system in order to fulfill
relevant quality attributes. When moving to detailed design levels, the same architecture can …

CONTEXT: Conformance between architecture and implementation is a key aspect of
architecture-centric development. Unfortunately, the architecture “as documented” and the …

Current software engineering trends are increasingly reasoning about large-scale
applications in terms of multi-agent systems (MAS). Along this line, frameworks have been …

We discuss the integer and floating-point multimedia instructions in the IA-64 instruction-set
architecture (ISA). These multimedia instructions implement subword parallelism, also called …

Given the difficulties of conventional object technologies to deal with quality-attribute
concerns, software architectures appear as an interesting approach to manage them better …

Finding software faults is a problematic activity in many systems. Existing approaches
usually work close to the system implementation and require developers to perform different …

Locating software faults is a problematic activity in many systems. Existing tool approaches
usually work close to the system implementation, requiring the developer to perform tedious …

The popularity of multi-agent systems (MAS) is on the rise. However, the provision of
guidelines to assist the developer to manage both agency and organizational concerns, so …

A software architecture design captures the main decisions regarding the quality-attribute
requirements for a system. When constructing these designs, the architect normally …