We present a pragmatic approach using formal methods to increase the quality of distributed component based systems: Based on UML class diagrams annotated with OCL constraints, co...
Replication is an area of interest to both distributed systems and databases. The solutions developed from these two perspectives are conceptually similar but differ in many aspec...
A good architecture is a necessary condition to guarantee that the expected levels of performance, availability, fault tolerance, and scalability are achieved by the implemented s...
Giovanni Bricconi, Emma Tracanella, Elisabetta Di ...
In the area of agent-based computing there are many proposals for specific system architectures, and a number of proposals for general approaches to building agents. As yet, howev...
Jordi Sabater, Carles Sierra, Simon Parsons, Nicho...
The growing use of ontologies in applications creates the need for an infrastructure that allows developers to more easily combine different software modules like ontology stores,...
Raphael Volz, Daniel Oberle, Steffen Staab, Boris ...