In this paper we present a methodology to measure quality attributes at the software architecture level. The methodology has been developed in the Telecom/Datacom domain, in cooperation with Ericsson Lab Italy in Rome. The goal of the project was to ...

Current trends suggest future software systems will comprise collections of components that combine and recombine dynamically in reaction to changing conditions. Service-discovery protocols, which enable software components to locate available software ...

Over the past few years, Java has evolved into a mature platform for developing enterprise applications. A critical factor for the commercial success of these applications is end-to-end performance, e.g., in terms of response times, throughput and ...

From the functional point of view, one of the most usual approaches to carry out real-time system design is based on the concept of a system as a set of software modules such as activities collaborating through interaction protocols. Considering the ...