Increasingly, distributed systems are being constructed by composing a number of discrete components. This practice, termed composition, is particularly prevalent within the Web s...
To facilitate the rapid development and open system interoperability of autonomous agents we need to carefully specify and effectively implement various classes of agent behaviors...
Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Katia P. Sycara, Mik...
Separating the description of important aspects of a design such as behavior and architecture, or computation and communication, may yield significant advantages in design time as...
Guang Yang 0004, Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentell...
We present an approach to component inheritance and reuse which closes the gap between architectural design and process-oriented approaches. To apply inheritance checks in design a...
Recent efforts to add new services to the Internet have increased interest in software-based routers that are easy to extend and evolve. This paper describes our experiences using...
Tammo Spalink, Scott Karlin, Larry L. Peterson, Yi...