A crucial issue in the design of Component-Based (CB) applications is the ability to early guarantee that the system under development will satisfy its Quality of Service requireme...
Abstract. Today’s software platforms that support the construction of agent systems in accordance with the FIPA specifications essentially provide enabling infrastructure servic...
We developed XVCL (XML-based Variant Configuration Language), a method and tool for product lines, to facilitate handling variants in reusable software assets (such as architectur...
System-on-chip (SoC) designs have the potential to change the way we organize computation. This potential has gone unrealized. Future SoCs will have multiple heterogeneous process...
Software components promise easy reuse, dependability, and simplified development. Problems arise when implicit assumptions about the use of the component are encoded in the imple...