Program componentization has been proved to be an effective way to increase the speed and cost-effectiveness of reusing, maintaining, and understanding existing software systems. ...
We are advocating a component-oriented software development approach that provides support for a clear separation between the computational and the compositional entities of an ap...
In this paper the Northrhine-Westphalian metacomputing initiative is described. We start by discussing various general aspects of metacomputing and explain the reasons for founding...
In a future networked physical world, a myriad of smart sensors and actuators assess and control aspects of their environments and autonomously act in response to it. Examples ran...
Several recently proposed infrastructures permit client applications to interact with distributed network-accessible services by simply ”plugging in” into a substrate that pro...
Anca-Andreea Ivan, Josh Harman, Michael Allen, Vij...