Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and mostly rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for context-awareness. This architecture ...
Nicolas Ferry, Stephane Lavirotte, Jean-Yves Tigli...
Component systems have become a wide-spread technology and found their place in several application domains. Each component system has its specifics and particularities that re...
This paper describes the transaction support framework OPTIMA and its implementation for Ada 95. First, a transaction model that fits concurrent programming languages is presented...
Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
The accurate estimation of software development effort has major implications for the management of software development in the industry. Underestimates lead to time pressures tha...
Gabriel Jarillo, Giancarlo Succi, Witold Pedrycz, ...