Needs of multimedia systems evolved due to the evolution of their architecture which is now distributed into heterogeneous contexts. A critical issue lies in the fact that they ha...
The language AML is used to specify the semantics of architecture description languages, ADLs. It is a very primitive language, having declarations for only three constructs: elem...
Abstract. Many software applications are based on collaborating, yet competing, agents or virtual organisations exchanging services. Contracts, expressing obligations, permissions ...
A domain model describes common and variant requirements for a system family. UML notations used in requirements analysis and software modeling can be extended with “variation p...
Philips Electronics is a world wide electronics company that develops many products containing embedded software. These products range from shavers with only few hundred bytes of ...