Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
Chia-En Lin, Krishna M. Kavi, Frederick T. Sheldon...
Abstract. Modeling and managing business processes that span multiple organizations involves new challenges, mainly regarding the ability to cope with change, decentralization, and...
Real-Time (RT) systems exhibit specific characteristics that make them particularly sensitive to architectural decissions. Design patterns help integrating the desired timing behav...
— Distributed software environments are increasingly complex and difficult to manage, as they integrate various legacy software with specific management interfaces. Moreover, t...
Laurent Broto, Daniel Hagimont, Estella Annoni, Be...
A model-driven reuse approach that is based on an organization’s Enterprise Architecture (EA) and on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is proposed. The framework embodying th...