Distributed software built from components has become a mainstay of service-oriented
applications, which frequently undergo reconfigurations to adapt to changes in their …

Due to the abundantly available imaging technologies, manipulation of digital images has
become a serious problem nowadays, in various fields like medical imaging, digital …

For large-scale distributed systems that need to adapt to a changing environment,
conducting a reconfiguration is a challenging task. In particular, efficient reconfigurations …

A strong separation of concerns is necessary in order to make the design of domain‐specific
functional components independent from cross‐cutting concerns, such as concurrent access …

The development of distributed systems is an intricate task due to inherent characteristics of
such systems. In this paper these characteristics are categorised into software engineering …

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High-level, declarative specification languages are typically highly modular: specifications
are comprised of fragments that are themselves meaningful. As such, complex specifications …

Software components are a valuable programming abstraction that enables a compositional
design of complex applications. In distributed systems, components can also be used to …

Running computational science applications on the emerging cloud infrastructures requires
appropriate programming models and tools. In this paper we investigate the applicability of …

With the growing number of devices that can collect spatiotemporal information, as well as
the improving quality of sensors, the geospatial data volume increases constantly. Before …