This paper aims to offer an overview of the meaning of autonomy for biological individuals and artificial models rooted in a specific perspective that pays attention to the histor...
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...
For embedded system development, several companies provide cross-platform development tools to aid in debugging, prototyping and optimization of programs. These are full system em...
Cristiano Pereira, Jeremy Lau, Brad Calder, Rajesh...
We introduce the formal notion of an interaction interface. Its purpose is to specify formally the interaction between two or more components that co-operate as subsystems of a di...
Web Services (WS) technology is becoming pervasive in the development of distributed systems and is an appealing vehicle for service presentation and horizontal integration. On th...
Fei Cao, Barrett R. Bryant, Wei Zhao, Carol C. Bur...