After a component based system is developed, it has to be deployed into a target environment. As the system becomes much larger and more complex and the environment becomes open an...
Ling Lan, Gang Huang, Liya Ma, Meng Wang, Hong Mei...
On-the-fly replacement of software may require simultanous distributed updates of components. If an update changes some interfaces or protocols, the update must be performed in a...
We propose a meta-framework called ‘Plastik’ which i) supports the specification and creation of runtime component-framework-based software systems and ii) facilitates and mana...
In this paper we propose a meta-model for architectures with heterogeneous multimedia components. Currently, a generic solution does not exist to automatically deploy a distributed...
Derdour Makhlouf, Philippe Roose, Marc Dalmau, Nac...
A Multi-agent system (MAS) is an open distributed system of agents. The agents in a MAS may form certain specific groups, where agents in each group jointly engage in solving a s...