Embedded systems have become prevalent in today’s computing world and more and more of these embedded systems are highly distributed and network centric. This adds increasing deg...
Abstract. Agent-oriented methodologies are an important means for constructing agent-based systems in a controlled repeatable form. However, agent-oriented methodologies have not r...
Software entropy is a phenomenon where repeated changes gradually degrade the structure of the system, making it hard to understand and maintain. This phenomenon imposes challenge...
As the properties of components have gradually become clearer, attention has started to turn to the architectural issues which govern their interaction and composition. In this pa...
A component revolution is underway, bringing developers improved productivity and opportunities for code reuse. However, whereas existing tools work well for builders of desktop ap...
Krzysztof Ostrowski, Ken Birman, Danny Dolev, Jong...