Modern distributed software applications generally operate in complex and heterogeneous computing environments (like the World Wide Web). Different paradigms (client-server, mobili...
In this paper, we describe the Architecture Description Language (ADL) that we are defining for the design of agentbased systems. This aims at filing the gap between the analysis ...
Abstract. Evaluating the implications of an architecture design early in the software development lifecycle is important in order to reduce costs of development. Reliability is an ...
UML state machines are widely used for modeling software behavior. However state-crosscutting behaviors, such as synchronization or execution history dependence, are hard to model...
: I have always been a strong believer and practitioner of the JFDI approach to development, which yields high morale, early identification of problems in design and of any misunde...