In this paper, we investigate the benefits of a flexible, application-specific instruction set by adding a run-time Reconfigurable Functional Unit (RFU) to a VLIW processor. Preli...
Early assessment of the non-functional properties of component compositions is one of the hottest issues in component-based architecting. We describe a method for evaluating the e...
Alexandre V. Fioukov, Evgeni M. Eskenazi, Dieter K...
Recently, Microsoft took a lead in the development of a standard for peer-to-peer network connectivity of various intelligent appliances, wireless devices and PCs. It is called th...
In this paper, we argue that there is a need for an event-based middleware to build large-scale distributed systems. Existing publish/subscribe systems still have limitations comp...
This paper presents a framework for software architecture recovery and restructuring. The user specifies a high level abstraction view of the system using a structured pattern la...