It is recognized in Ambient Intelligence that ambient devices should be modeled as intelligent autonomous components rather than passive information sources. The agent paradigm sui...
Exergy is a way to sustainable development and may be defined as the maximum theoretical useful work, while exergy analysis identifies the sources, the magnitude and the causes of...
Behavior, Interaction, Priorities (BIP) is a component framework for constructing systems from a set of atomic components by using two kinds of composition operators: interactions ...
This paper introduces an approach to develop componentbased adaptive distributed applications. Our approach separates the communication and the functional aspects of a distributed...
An Phung-Khac, Antoine Beugnard, Jean-Marie Gillio...
This paper presents a middleware platform allowing the dissemination of software components on handheld devices forming a disconnected MANET. It is based on a model that exploits ...