—Sensor networks represent a new frontier in technology that holds the promise of unprecedented levels of autonomy in the execution of complex dynamic missions by harnessing the ...
A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
This paper reviews the concepts of Earned Value Management established in traditional project management, and determines whether and how they can be applied to software developmen...
During the last three years we have been building an instantiation of a system's development paradigm, called ARTS. The paradigm consists of a view of what a system developme...
This paper presents a mechanism for dividing an agent oriented application into the three IEEE defined scoping levels of essential, conditional and optional. This mechanism is ap...