Software architectures promote development focused on modular building blocks and their interconnections. Since architecture-level components often contain complex functionality, ...
Eric M. Dashofy, Nenad Medvidovic, Richard N. Tayl...
Macro programming a distributed system, such as a sensor network, is the ability to specify application tasks at a global level while relying on compiler-like software to translat...
Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Middleware simplifies the construction of distributed applications. These applications typically require continuous uptime. The maintenance of distributed applications, though, im...
Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) promises to benefit engineering by providing a layer of abstraction that can modularize system-level concerns. AOP is still a very young area of ...