In this paper we propose an XML-based markup language, called XSTEP, for embodied agents, based on the scripting language STEP. XSTEP is the XML-based successor of STEP. The scrip...
Vienna Fortran is a machine-independent language extension of Fortran, which is based upon the Single-Program-Multiple-Data SPMD paradigm and allows the user to write programs f...
Barbara M. Chapman, Piyush Mehrotra, Hans Moritsch...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...
As application semantics becomes more complex and dynamic in IT systems, it is necessary to engineer the application semantics in its own lifecycle of development parallel to syste...
Software must be adapted to accommodate new features in the context of changing requirements. In this paper, we illustrate how applications with aspect weaving capabilities can be...