We take the position that large-scale distributed systems are better understood, at all levels, when locality is taken into account. When communication and mobility are clearly se...
This paper addresses the problem of enabling a user of a process-centered SDE, hosted on a high-speed network, to continue working on a detached mobile workstation connected by a l...
We present a tool for the design and validation of embedded real-time applications. The tool integrates two approaches, the use of the synchronous programming language ESTEREL for...
Abstract. The agent paradigm can be seen as an extension of the notion of (active) objects by concepts like autonomy, cooperation, and goal-oriented behavior. Mainstream object-ori...
Classes play a dual role in mainstream statically-typed object-oriented languages, serving as both object generators and object types. In such languages, inheritance implies subtyp...