Software-defined networking (SDN) has received a great deal of attention from both
academia and industry in recent years. Studies on SDN have brought a number of …

Researchers who build creativity support tools (CSTs) define abstractions and software
representations that align with user needs to give users the power to accomplish tasks …

Software developers have always been concerned with the quality of the products they
produce. Although software engineers use new methods to evaluate the quality of their …

Multi-agent systems (MASs) include multiple interacting agents within an environment to
provide a solution for complex systems that cannot be easily solved with individual agents or …

Abstract The adoption of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) is regarded as an approach to
reduce the accidental complexity of software systems development. The availability of …

The surge of interest in digital building models combined with increasing sensorization of
spaces is prompting an integration of Building Information Modelling (BIM) with real-time …

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are claimed to bring important productivity
improvements to developers, when compared to General-Purpose Languages (GPLs). The …

Programming tools are increasingly integral to research and analysis in myriad domains,
including specialized areas with no formal relation to computer science. Embedded domain …

Abstract Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) can be regarded as User Interfaces (UIs)
because they bridge the gap between the domain experts and the computation platforms …

Modern microservice architectures demand new features from traditional architecture
description languages, many of them related to the complexity of the modeled systems. This …