Abstract. This paper argues for a transfer of knowledge and experience gained in task-based design to Software Engineering. A transformation of task models into activity diagrams as part of UML is proposed. By using familiar notations, software engineers might be encouraged to accept task

reviews the applicable literature on eliciting mental models of software reverse engineers. Based on the literature, a taxonomy of common processes is developed which leads to a methodology to elicit and represent reverse engineers' mental models of the tasks. Keywords: reverse engineering, program

A warm welcome to new and old members! I am pleased to welcome a large number of new members to the Division this year, and I hope new and old alike will find ample opportunity to get involved in professional issues through ELD. As this newsletter issue illustrates, our members are active. You

career in physics, engineering, and mathematics. Their experience in the summer program resulted in good performance both in their physics and mathematics classes. Moreover, House [9] found out from his study that career-oriented classroom instructional activities do not only increase the interest

facilitated the task of understanding complex sys-tems at cellular and molecular levels in recent years. Segmentation, an important yet dif-ficult problem, is often the first processing step following acquisition. Our team previously demonstrated that a stochastic active contour based algorithm together

that change both the internal workings of the device and its interface to the host operating sys-tem. Using the OpenSSD Jasmine board, we develop a prototype of FlashTier’s Solid State Cache (SSC) and of the Nameless Write SSD. While the flash-translation layer changes were straightforward, we discovered un

First, I would like to thank to Dimka Karastoyanova and Mariano Cilia for all the fruitful discussions, their guidance and support through the course of this project. Thanks also to Prof. Alejandro Buchmann who sponsored my stay at Technische Universität Darmstadt during the spring of 2004. The special thanks go to my advisor, Mariano Cilia, who has made all this possible. Finally, I’d like to thank to my family for all these years of support.

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I declare that this thesis is my own account of my research and contains as its main content work which has not previously been submitted for a degree at any tertiary education institution.

Abstract—Architecting software systems according to the serviceoriented paradigm, and designing runtime self-adaptable systems are two relevant research areas in today’s software engineering. In this paper we address issues that lie at the intersection of these two important fields. First, we