A Cross-Cutting Calm

13 Cross - Cutting Issues

Conservative estimates in the United States predict that the number of persons aged 65 years and over will grow from 35 million in 2000 to 78 million in 2011, accounting for more than 20% of the overall population. 1 The number of those aged 85 years and over will grow from 4 million to 18.2 million. If life expectancy continues to increase at the same rate seen in the 1990s, the number of olde...

Cross Cutting Condensed Graphs

Condensed Graphs provide a graph based programming model that unifies availability-driven, coerciondriven and control-driven computing. In this paper we explore the issues of concurrency and synchronisation between condensed graph applications. A paradigm for condensed graph synchronisation is proposed and an architectural pattern is developed that forms the basis of a novel synchronisation mec...

World Poverty as a Cross-cutting Issue

Specifying Cross-Cutting Requirement Concerns

Addressing non-orthogonal software concerns that arise from requirements can significantly contribute to the complexity of developing large systems. Difficulties arise from the need to: locate related requirements, reason about the software concerns they represent, and analyze the impact of changing requirements. We address these issues through the use of requirements aspects. We present a meth...

Cross-cutting Perspective on Nature

In this chapter, we delve into the nature perspective in order to supply cross-cutting insights to the interlinkages between nature and drought. These interlinkages are not just found in the two regions that have chosen this perspective as the subject of their pilots, but are also to some extent relevant in the other four areas. For the purposes of this chapter, the term nature is applied as a ...