People intuitively understand that function and purpose are critical parts of what human-configured entities are about, but these notions have proved difficult to capture formally....
Abstract--Pervasive computing applications involve both software concerns, like any software system, and integration concerns, for the constituent networked devices of the pervasiv...
In the automotive domain, several loosely-coupled Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) compete to proet of abstract modeling and analysis services on top of the implementatio...
—Gel is a hardware description language that enables quick scripting of high level designs and can be easily extended to new design patterns. It is expression oriented and extrem...
Several description frameworks to semantically describe and match services on the one hand and service requests on the other have been presented in the literature. Many of the curr...