Interoperability is the ability of two or more software components to cooperate despite
differences in language, interface, and execution platform. It is a scalable form of reusability …

Software is rarely built completely from scratch. To a great extent, existing software
documents (source code, design documents, etc.) are copied and adapted to fit new …

Software architectures shift developers' focus from lines-of-code to coarser-grained
architectural elements and their interconnection structure. Architecture description …

In this paper the authors address some of the challenges of the current technologies in the
area of component-based programming and automated software downloading. These …

Until today, the explicit specification of" software contracts" by means of class invariants and
method pre-and post-conditions was only available to Eiffel developers. iContract is the first …

The future Internet is expected to support multicast applications with quality of service (QoS)
requirements. To facilitate this, QoS multicast routing protocols are pivotal in enabling new …

A broad spectrum of electronic commerce applications is currently available on the Web,
providing services in almost any area one can think of. As the number and variety of such …

This paper describes the j colibri2 framework for building Case-based reasoning (CBR)
systems. CBR is a mature subfield of artificial intelligence based on the reuse of previous …

Pocítace stále více ovlivnují lidskou spolecnost. Používání pocítacu je stále komplexnejší a
klade stále vetší duraz na ukládání, vyhledávání a prezentaci informací. Základním prvkem …

Traffic measurements are becoming increasingly complex due to the variety of traffic types
and the integration of different network media. Although traditional tools such as sniffers and …