This paper presents a mechanism for dividing an agent oriented application into the three IEEE defined scoping levels of essential, conditional and optional. This mechanism is ap...
Abstract. The integration of COTS components into a system under development entails architectural mismatches. These have been tackled, so far, at the component level, through comp...
Teams of autonomous vehicles (AVs) carry out missions in a number of fields such as space exploration and searchand-rescue. However, human supervision is still required to monito...
Abstract. Software architectures are engineering artifacts which provide high-level descriptions of complex systems. Certain recent architecture description languages (Adls) allow ...
MicroQoSCORBA (MQC) is a middleware platform that focuses on embedded applications by providing a very fine level of configurability of its internal orthogonal components. Using t...