Web services are currently one of the most important technologies for enabling an effective communication between and within distributed systems. The Web services technology relies on widely used and well-adopted technologies and open standards. A current trend in software engineering is model-based software development. One of the main goals of model-based software development is the efficient...

User profiles or user models are vital in many areas in which it is essential to obtain knowledge about users of software applications. Examples of these areas are intelligent agents, adaptive systems, intelligent tutoring systems, recommender systems, intelligent e-commerce applications, and knowledge management systems. In this chapter we study the main issues regarding user profiles from the...

Profile hidden Markov models (profile HMMs) and probabilistic inference methods have made important contributions to the theory of sequence database homology search. However, practical use of profile HMM methods has been hindered by the computational expense of existing software implementations. Here I describe an acceleration heuristic for profile HMMs, the "multiple segment Viterbi" (MSV) alg...

A UML Profi le for Documenting the Component-and-Connector Views of Software Architectures 2 www.epidataconsulting.com INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................................................................................3 Component-and-Connector Viewtype.......................................................

A national computer network linking educational and research institutions is frequently proposed as a means of making available specialized computing resources, minimizing duplicate software development, and making more efficient use of the nation's total computing resources. However, a number of economic, political, and organizational, rather than technical, issues must be resolved before such...

Functionality is the highest semantic level of the software behavior pyramid that reflects goals of the software rather than its specific implementation. Detection of malicious functionalities presents an effective way to detect malware in behavior-based IDS. A technology for mining system call data, discussed herein, results in the detection of functionalities representing operation of legitim...

It is generally accepted that the knowledge of information technology experts should be flexible, open, and multidisciplinary. The necessity of such knowledge profile is strengthened by the current revolution in software leading to global confederated software systems. The flexibility and the openness of knowledge is possible only if the kernel of the knowledge of software professionals include...

Modeling context-awareness is becoming a primary activity for software engineers that design applications for mobile devices. In fact, software applications running on such devices need to be aware of their context (that may rapidly change) to adapt their services and offer the best quality (intended as a combination of non-functional properties) in any context. Thus the need of instruments to ...

This paper proposes an instrumented approach to integrate feature diagrams with UML models to be used as part of a general approach for designing software product lines and for product generation. The concrete contribution is a new UML pro le based on a meta-model synthesising existing feature diagrams semantics using IBM R ©Rational Software Architect (RSA) implementation. Our feature diagram ...