Current object-oriented approaches to distributed programs may be criticized in several respects. First, method calls are generally synchronous, which leads to much waiting in dis...
Legacy applications are still widely spread. If a need to change deployment or update its functionality arises, it becomes difficult to estimate the performance impact of such modi...
Steffen Becker, Michael Hauck, Mircea Trifu, Klaus...
Component-orientedprogramming(COP)isactuallyakeyresearchtrackinsoftwareengineering.Avarietyofcomponent-oriented s (COLs) have been proposed with new or adapted abstractions and me...
Service Oriented Architectures draw heavily on techniques for reusing and assembling off-the-shelf software components. While powerful, this programming practice is not without a ...
Giovanni Bernardi, Michele Bugliesi, Damiano Maced...
In the context of natural multimodal dialogue systems, we address the challenging issue of the definition of cooperative answers in an appropriate multimodal form. Highlighting th...
Meriam Horchani, Benjamin Caron, Laurence Nigay, F...