The idea that there is a critical age for language learning that finishes before puberty was
popularised by the Canadian brain surgeons W. Penfield and L. Roberts in their book …

Software engineering techniques made it possible for developers to build larger, and more
accurate, reliable, and maintainable software-intensive systems. This was essentially …

Currently, service-oriented computing is mainly technology-driven. Most developments focus
on the technology that enables enterprises to describe, publish and compose application …

The objective of the Ph. D. work discussed in this paper is to define a methodology for the
design of distributed applications, in line with the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA). An …

Context: The need to analyze a large volume and variety of data for the purpose of extracting
information has been promoting investments in Big Data, eg, for storage, analysis and, more …

The model-driven architecture enables the deployment of software applications on different
platforms. It is based on a pattern in which a platform-independent model is transformed into …

Abstract Model Driven Engineering (MDE) promotes the use of models as primary artefacts
of a software development process, as an attempt to handle complexity through abstraction …

In this paper, we define a model-driven design trajectory for context-aware services
consisting of three levels of models with different degrees of abstraction and platform …

Abstract The Model Driven Development (MDD) paradigm stimulates the use of models as
the main artifacts for software development. These models can be situated at high levels of …

In recent years, business process models are increasingly being used as a means for
business process improvement. Business rules can be seen as requirements for business …