In this paper we describe several aspects of implementing a high speed network-based distributed application. We describe the design and implementation of a distributed parallel storage system that uses high speed ATM networks as a key element of the architecture. The architecture provides what amounts to a collection of network-based disk block servers, and an associated name server that provi...

Cooperative software engineering typically involves many actors and resources that cooperate in a complex distributed and heterogeneous world. In the DIPS (Distributed Integrated Process Services) project, a three-dimensional model is used for the definition, enactment and tracing of software development processes, which expresses both structure and evolution of such processes. This paper discu...

The fundamental structure of a software system is referred to as the software architecture. Researchers have identified that the quality attributes of a software system, e.g., performance and maintainability, often are restricted by the architecture. Therefore, it is important to evaluate the quality properties of a system already during architectural design. In this paper we propose an approac...

Form is a framework used to construct tools for analyzing the runtime behavior of standalone and distributed software systems. The architecture of Form is based on the event broadcast and pipe and filter styles. In the implementation of this architecture, execution profiles may be generated from standalone or distributed systems. The profile data is subsequently broadcast by Form to one or more...

Pervasive computing appears like a new computing era based on networks of objects and devices evolving in a real world, radically different from distributed computing, based on networks of computers and data storages. Contrary to most context-aware approaches, we work on the assumption that pervasive software must be able to deal with a dynamic software environment before processing contextual ...

This paper deals with the construction of distributed software development environments (SDE). Distributed SDEs must often run on heterogeneous hardware and software platforms. A promising approach to solve this heterogeneity problem is to implement tools, at least their front-ends, in Java. We propose a repository-centered SDE architecture in which an active repository ooers services such as v...

proper decisions play a crucial role in any software architecture design process. an important decision of design stage is the selection of a suitable software architecture style. lack of investigation on the quantitative impact of architecture styles on software quality attributes is the main problem in using such styles. consequently, the use of architecture styles in designing is based on th...

Software architectural design is becoming increasingly important in software engineering, as being manifested through various recent developments in the field such as the component-based software engineering paradigm and the distributed and collaborative computing paradigm. Abstraction is such a mechanism as the key concept underpinning software architecture, namely hiding the immense amount of...