Autonomic Computing is a promising new concept in system development. It aims to (i)
increase reliability by designing systems to be self-protecting and self-healing; and (ii) …

The issue of privacy protection in video surveillance has drawn a lot of interest lately.
However, thorough performance analysis and validation is still lacking, especially regarding …

Architectural languages (ALs) have attracted much attention as the modeling notations for
specifying and reasoning about important design decisions. In this study, 124 different …

An architectural aspect is a concern that cuts across architecture modularity units and cannot
be effectively modularized using the given abstractions of conventional Architecture …

Privacy and data protection by design are relevant parts of the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), in which businesses and organisations are encouraged to implement …

Abstract Architecture description languages are a sound and convenient approach to
software architecture representation. The majority of well-known ADLs provide separation of …

Abstractions to express architectural connection play a central role in architecture design,
especially in Architecture Description Languages (ADLs). With the emergence of aspect …

Currently, non-functional requirements (NFRs) consume a considerable part of the software
development effort. The good news is that most of them appear time and again during …

Managing complex software systems is one of the most important problems to be solved by
software engineering. The software engineer needs to apply new techniques that allow for …

Teleoperated robots are used to perform tasks that human operators cannot carry out
because of the nature of the tasks themselves or the hostile nature of the working …