A challenging problem for software engineering practitioners is moving from high-level system architectures produced by system engineers to deployable software produced by softwar...
David Garlan, William K. Reinholtz, Bradley R. Sch...
architectures at multiple levels of abstraction, encompassing both hardware and software. It has five modes of operation (Design, Model Validation, Build Simulation, Simulate Syste...
Paul S. Coe, Fred W. Howell, Roland N. Ibbett, Lau...
Design patterns help to improve communication software quality since they address a fundamental challenge in largescale software development: communicationof architectural knowled...
We describe a bottom-up approach to the design of software agents. We built and tested an agent system that addresses the real-world problem of handling the activities involved in...
Henry A. Kautz, Bart Selman, Michael H. Coen, Stev...
Even though the benefits of component-based software development are widely accepted, they are easily overestimated. To provide a firmer basis for the general discussion we descri...