The layered architecture of middleware platforms (such as CORBA, SOAP, J2EE) is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, layers provide services such as demarshaling, session management...
A software product line (SPL) is a set of software systems with well-defined commonalities and variabilities that are developed by managed reuse of common artifacts. In this pape...
— Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) is introduced to shorten the software development time, produce better quality of code and promote the reuse of software artifacts. On the other...
Formal analysis remains outside the mainstream of system design practice. Interactive methods and tools are regarded by some to be on the margin of useful research in this area. Al...
Abstract. Because middleware abstractions remove the need for lowlevel network programming, modern distributed component systems expose network volatility (i.e., frequent but inter...
Young-Woo Kwon, Eli Tilevich, Taweesup Apiwattanap...