Abstract: Two of today's most used buzz-words in the context of software development are the terms Componentware and Distributed Object-System. The combination of both ideas i...
Designing large software systems out of reusable components has become increasingly popular. Although liberal composition of reusable components saves time and expense, many exper...
Jing Dong, Paulo S. C. Alencar, Donald D. Cowan, S...
The paper describes the design of a generation component for a spoken dialogue system. After discussing three existing models of generation, a model based on new information focus...
This paper describes a technique which allows impaired functions to be automatically determined from the faulty components and vice versa. Moreover a knowledge base containing the...
Reusable components equipped with strict guarantees of quality can help reestablish software development on a stronger footing, by taking advantage of the scaling effect of reuse ...