This work compares and contrasts two component frameworks: (1) the web-centric Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) framework and (2) the FIPA-compliant multi-agent system (MAS). FIPA...
""The goal of this book is to teach you to think like a computer scientist. I like the way computer scientists think because they combine some of the best features of Mat...
Recent evidences indicate that most faults in software systems are found in only a few of a system's components [1]. The early identification of these components allows an or...
T. Wang, Ahmed E. Hassan, Ajith Guedem, Walid Abde...
ASTRAL is a high-level formal specification language for real-time (infinite state) systems. It is provided with structuring mechanisms that allow one to build modularized specifi...
When dealing with dynamic component environments such as the OSGi Service Platform, where components can come from different sources and may be known only during runtime, evaluatin...