Agile teams are described as" self-organizing". How these teams actually organize
themselves in practice, however, is not well understood. Through Grounded Theory …

Architectural languages (ALs) have attracted much attention as the modeling notations for
specifying and reasoning about important design decisions. In this study, 124 different …

Distributed and concurrent application invariably have coordination requirements. The
design of those applications, composed by several (possibly distributed) components, has to …

A homecare system should adapt to changes regarding the patient needs and to variations
in the residential environment. This requires a software architecture designed to support …

We present an architecture that includes two essential services to compose the supporting
infrastructure required by context-aware applications: a Context Service, that provides …

Current interests in the context of system development include non-functional aspects of an
application and the quality of the service (QoS) it provides. In video on demand applications …

This paper presents a comprehensive approach to facilitate the specification, deployment
and self-management of application architectures having context-sensitive non-functional …

In this text we identify relevant adaptation issues concerning the software architecture of a
system for intelligent health monitoring of a person at home. Our solution integrates medical …

Many real‐time systems use preemptive priority‐based scheduling in their internals to
guarantee certain real‐time performance. This includes technologies that range from The …

In this paper we give an overview of a Ph. D. work that involves the specification,
implementation, and evaluation of an architecture-driven environment for cloud applications …