Component-based software development focuses on building large software systems by integrating existing software components to reduce cost, risk and time. However, behavioural and...
Despite the acceptance of FIPA-ACL as a standard for agent communications, there exist a gap between its specification and infrastructures to support interactions among agents. The...
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) and the use of (de-facto) standard component models have gained popularity in recent years, particularly in the development of desktop ...
This paper presents a mechanism for dynamic reconfiguration of component-based applications and its fault tolerance strategy. The mechanism, named generic connector, allows compos...
We propose a meta-framework called ‘Plastik’ which i) supports the specification and creation of runtime component-framework-based software systems and ii) facilitates and mana...