Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
The importance of standards in enabling the development of industry and commerce through the standardization of components, interfaces and specifications is well known and underst...
Component-based operating systems enable embedded systems to adapt system policies, mechanisms, and abstractions to the specific workloads and contexts of each system. The scope o...
Dynamic adaptation has been an essential requirement for more and more business systems. Some research works have focused on the structural or behavioral changes of adaptive progr...
Ubiquitous application software usually has multiple QoS requirements, such as situationawareness, real-time, and security, which make the application software development complic...