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This paper briefly summarizes software reuse research, discusses major research contributions and unsolved problems, provides pointers to key publications, and introduces four papers selected from The Eighth International Conference on Software Reuse (ICSR8). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A goal of runtime software-fault monitoring is to observe software behavior to determine whether it complies with its intended behavior. Monitoring allows one to analyze and recover from detected faults, providing additional defense against catastrophic failure. Although runtime monitoring has been in use for over 30 years, there is renewed interest in its application to fault detection and recovery, largely because of the increasing complexity and ubiquitous nature of software systems. This paper presents a taxonomy that developers and researchers can use to analyze and differentiate recent developments in runtime software fault- monitoring approaches. The taxonomy categorizes the various runtime monitoring research by classifying the elements that are considered essential for building a monitoring system, i.e., the specification language used to define properties; the monitoring mechanism that oversees the program's execution; and the event handler that captures and communicates monitoring results. After describing the taxonomy, the paper presents the classification of the software-fault monitoring systems described in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses how developers, designers and researchers can be allowed to build intuitive, multimodal and user-centric scientific applications that can help and enable scientific research, basically a natural user interface (NUI) to facilitate scientific discovery. It refers to NUI as a term used to find the best possible ways to interact with computing devices. It offers a scenario including an accelerating science scenario and rapid data sharing speeding where a scientist will find it easy to deal with information overload by depending on NUI.

Dynamic software product lines extend the concept of conventional SPLs by enabling software-variant generation at runtime. Recent studies yield insights into the current state of the DSPL field, research trends, and major gaps to address. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Middleware 2004, the ACM/IFIP/Usenix 5th International Middleware Conference, covers middleware research and technology. The conference focuses broadly on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems platforms and architectures for future computing environments. One of the planned workshops, iMiddleware for Pervasive and Ad-Hoc Computing, seeks to develop a road map for research on essential software infrastructures for ad hoc and pervasive computing. The workshop identifies appropriate core architectures, languages and systems to address the specific problems of large-scale, real-world, pervasive computing environments.