This paper introduces the notion of transparent distribution of real time software components. Transparent distribution means that (1) the functional and temporal behavior of a sy...
Emilia Farcas, Claudiu Farcas, Wolfgang Pree, Jose...
Commercial-off-the-shelf components (COTS) are widely reused at present and black-box composition is the unique way to integrate them into the target system. However, various mism...
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— Component-based applications require good middleware support. In particular, business logic should be separated from management code for guaranteeing nonfunctional prop...
The software engineering community has introduced component and connector concepts to support architecture-based software descriptions. However, there still exists a gap in transi...