The increasing complexity of the business transaction results in a higher potential risk in terms of SLA violation. The fulfillment of the QoS constraints specified in global SLA can be threatened at any time by ...

The shift towards multicore processing has led to a much wider population of developers being faced with the challenge of exploiting parallel cores to improve software performance. Debugging and optimizing parallel ...

Modern software systems are prone to a continuous evolution under frequently varying requirements. Architecture-centric software evolution enables change in system structure and behavior while maintaining a global view of ...

Service-based architectures implement business processes as technical software services to develop enterprise software. As a consequence of frequent business and technical change cycles, the architect requires a reusecentered ...

Agile approaches to information systems development have become increasingly popular in recent years, as more and more IS organisations are eager to capitalise on the alleged opportunities and benefits they provide. ...

This research investigates the effects of preference relaxation on decisionmaking performance of users in online preference-based product search contexts. We compare four recommender systems based on different preference ...

Bluetooth (Bluetooth SIG 2003, Haartsen 1998, Johansson, et al. 2002, Morrow 2002) is a recently conceived universal communication standard that allows wireless connectivity among numerous portable electronic devices ...

The Product Owner (PO) is critical for translating business needs into a software implementation by gathering and prioritizing requirements, and assessing whether features have met the definition of “done.” There is a ...

Given the current popularity of Global Software Development (GSD) increasing numbers of organisations are taking the opportunity offered to set up virtual software teams. This approach allows companies to partner experienced ...

During the development of applied systems, an important problem that must be addressed is that of choosing the correct tools for a given domain or scenario. This general task has been addressed by the genetic programming ...