Availability of a common, shared benchmark to provide repeatable, quantifiable, and
comparable results is an added value for any scientific community. International consortia …

Ideally, a software development methodology should include both the ability to specify non-
functional requirements and to analyze them starting early in the lifecycle; the goal is to …

Open-world software is a paradigm which allows to develop distributed and heterogeneous
software systems. They can be built by integrating already developed third-party services …

Model-Driven SOA is an emerging approach for developing service-oriented systems using
models at different levels of abstractions and applying model transformations to generate …

The time Petri net with firing frequency intervals (TPNF) is a modeling formalism used to
specify system behavior under timing and frequency constraints. Efficient techniques exist to …

The paper proposes a model-driven approach for deriving performance models from UML
design models of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) enterprise systems, in order to …

This paper presents an aspect-based approach for realizing a transformation from platform-
independent to platform-dependent models in the context of a model transformation chain …

The agent paradigm has been successfully used in a large number of research areas.
MAPFS, a parallel file system, constitutes one successful application of agents to the I/O …

People with special needs may find difficulties using electronic consumer devices, user
interfaces limit their chances of having full control on them. The Universal Remote Control …

Grid infrastructures for e-Science projects are growing in magnitude terms. Improvements in
data Grid replication algorithms may be critical in many of these infrastructures. This paper …