Abstract. Typical sensor nodes are composed of cheap hardware because they have to be affordable in great numbers. This means that memory and communication bandwidth are small, CPU...
In this paper we study an assemble-to-order environment involving a short-life-cycle product. The product is sold in two different configurations, each requiring a unique componen...
The research vision of the Unified Component Meta Model Framework (UniFrame) is to develop an infrastructure for components that enables a plug and play component environment wher...
Carol C. Burt, Barrett R. Bryant, Rajeev R. Raje, ...
A composite multimedia object (cmo) is comprised of different media components such as text, video, audio and image, with a variety of constraints that must be adhered to. The con...
We introduce the formal notion of an interaction interface. Its purpose is to specify formally the interaction between two or more components that co-operate as subsystems of a di...