This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture ...
The three problems of the title — the first two widely discussed in the literature, the third less well known but just as important for further development of object technology ...
A dynamic binary translation system for a co-designed virtual machine is described and evaluated. The underlying hardware directly executes an accumulator-oriented instruction set...
SystemC-Plus from the ODETTE project provides the ability to simulate and synthesise object-oriented specifications into hardware. The current ODETTE compiler translates each obj...
Work on agent communication languages has since long striven to achieve adequate speech act semantics; partly, the problem is that references to an agent’s architecture (in parti...