Construction of complex software systems with largely off-the-shelf components has become a reality with the wide availability and acceptance of component frameworks and distribut...
William J. McIver Jr., Karim Keddara, Christian Oc...
For more than a decade, ontologies have been proposed as a means to enable sharing and reuse of knowledge. While originally relatively narrow information landscapes have been in mi...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...
IPCHINOOK is a design tool for distributed embedded systems. It gains leverage from the use of a carefully chosen set of design ions that raise the level of designer interaction d...
Pai H. Chou, Ross B. Ortega, Ken Hines, Kurt Partr...
A primary goal of generative programming and model-driven ent is to raise the level of abstraction at which designers and developers interact with the software systems they are bui...