In the context of software development, models provide an abstract representation of a
software system or a part of it. In the software development process, they are primarily used …

The complexity of information systems is increasing in recent years, leading to increased
effort for maintenance and configuration. Self-adaptive systems (SASs) address this issue …

Ubiquitous computing poses a number of challenges for software architecture. One of the
most important is the ability to design software systems that accommodate dynamically …

The ubiquity of the Internet connection to desktops has been both a boon to business as well
as a cause for concern for the security of digital assets that may be unknowingly exposed …

Traditional mechanisms that allow a system to detect and recover from errors are typically
wired into applications at the level of code where they are hard to change, reuse, or analyze …

We propose a pair of shape features for searching surface-based 3D shape models based
on their shape similarity. Either of the features is computed by first converting an input …

An important domain for autonomic systems is the area of ubiquitous computing: users are
increasingly surrounded by technology that is heterogeneous, pervasive, and variable. In …

Driven by the emergence of pervasive computing and the increasing need for self-managed
systems, many approaches have been proposed for building software that can dynamically …

Enabling the ambient intelligence vision means that consumers will be provided with
universal and immediate access to available content and services, together with ways of …

The simulation speed is a key issue in virtual prototyping of Multi-Processors System on
Chip (MPSoCs). The SystemC TLM2. 0 (Transaction Level Modeling) approach accelerates …