Recently, more attention is paid to the researches and practices on how to use software architecture in software maintenance and evolution to reduce their complexity and cost. The ...
We propose a new configuration language, component and service library, and compiler that make it easier to develop efficient sensor network applications. Our goal is the constr...
Case studies made of multimedia document production highlight the need for a means of classifying and describing the transformations of media elements which make up this process. ...
This paper argues that caching, atomicity and layering are fundamental to persistent systems, and that the transactional object cache architecture, as an embodiment of these conce...
We give a notation and a logical calculus for the description and deductive manipulation of dynamic networks of communicating components. We represent such nets by hierarchical sys...