Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
Reconfigurable devices, such as FPGAs, introduce into the design workflow of embedded systems a new degree of freedom: the designer can have the system autonomously modify the fun...
Carlo Amicucci, Fabrizio Ferrandi, Marco D. Santam...
s This paper introduces an architecture-centric object-oriented design method for MAS (Multi-Agent Systems) using the extended UML (Unified Modeling Language). The UML extension is...
Hongsoon Yim, Kyehyun Cho, Sung Joo Park, Jongwoo ...
Software architecture description languages (ADLs) were a particularly active research area in the 1990s. In 2000, we published an extensive study of existing ADLs, which has serv...
Architectural patterns have an impact on both the structure and the behavior of a system at the architecture design level. However, it is challenging to model patterns' behavi...