The open-source programming language R has gained a central place in the hydrological
sciences over the last decade, driven by the availability of diverse hydro-meteorological data …

The development of functional–structural plant models requires an increasing amount of
computer modelling. All these models are developed by different teams in various contexts …

In the era of service-oriented computing, ICT systems exponentially grow in their size and
complexity, becoming more and more dynamic and distributed, often spanning across …

Next-generation middleware must support complex compositions that involve dependencies
between multiple components residing in different contexts and locations in the network. In …

Controllers often are large and complex reactive software systems and thus they typically
cannot be developed as monolithic products. Instead, they are usually comprised of multiple …

Understanding user preferences for interacting with information systems (IS) is particularly
important in the field of management support systems (MSS), where strong idiosyncrasies …

So far, little research has addressed reuse and context awareness with respect to rich Web-
based user interfaces. Uniform models for encapsulation and reuse have been developed …

In this paper, we describe the principles and the methodologies that we have researched for
the creation of a software infrastructure for bridging the gap from brain-like systems design to …

Architecture-Driven Modernization (ADM) intends to standardize software reengineering by
relying on a family of standard metamodels. Knowledge-Discovery Metamodel (KDM) is the …

Distributed real-time automotive embedded systems have to be highly dependable as well
as cost-efficient due to the large number of manufactured units. To close the gap between …