with regard to the society’s need for complicated software and high level of expenses on its development, it is necessary to take all stakeholders’ requirements and the demands into consideration, before any investments and put on the design and utilization stages. software architecture is a technical description of a software system that indicates components and their relationships between the...

Integrating heterogeneous web service styles with flexible semantic web services groundings Conference Item How to cite: Lambert, David; Benn, Neil and Domingue, John (2010). Integrating heterogeneous web service styles with flexible semantic web services groundings. In: 1st International Future Enterprise Systems Workshop (FES2010) at The 3rd Future Internet Symposium (FIS2010), 20-22 Sept 201...

In this paper we present an analytical model for estimating architecture-based software reliability, according to the reliability of each component, the operational profile, and the architecture of software. Our approach is based on Markov chain properties and architecture view to state view transformations to perform reliability analysis on heterogeneous software architectures. We demonstrate ...

An approach to software composition from heterogeneous components is presented. The focus is on heterogeneity of interaction styles. The interface of a component is described in an abstract manner, hiding the component’s actual interaction style. This allows for automatic generation of code that mediates between incompatible styles, thus obviating the need for manual construction of wrappers.

Conventional standards for bibliography styles entail a forced choice between index and name/year citations and corresponding references. We reject this false dichotomy, and describe a multibibliography, comprising alphabetic, sequenced, and even chronological orderings of references. An extended inline citation format is also proposed to integrate such heterogeneous styles, and is usable and u...

The codification of software architectural decisions made to address recurring software development challenges results in architectural styles. The Alfa framework provides a small set of architectural primitives for systematically specifying styles and style-based architectures for networkbased systems. In this paper, we formalize Alfa’s primitives in a compositional theory of styles and softwa...

Collaborative learning enables individual learners to combine their own expertise, experience and ability to accomplish a mutual learning goal. The grouping of learners, and learning from social interactions with peer-learners, are two basic characteristics of collaborative learning. For individual learners to benefit from collaborative learning, individual learners with different characteristi...