A development environment for applications specified in an extended version of a previously developed coordination model based on associatively broadcast interactions is presented....
The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
This paper proposes an approach to the problem of generating metadata for composite mixed-media digital objects by appropriately combining and exploiting existing knowledge or met...
PVM and other distributed computing systems have enabled the use of networks of workstations for parallel computation, but their approach of treating all networks as collections o...
Because the knowledge required for the construction of a complex software system is often widely distributed among its members, programmers routinely engage in collaboration with ...