This paper makes two main contributions towards establishing support for application-specific factors in middleware security mechanisms. First, it develops a simple classification...
—Time and uncertainty of the environment are very important aspects in the development of real world applications. Another important issue for the real world agents is, the balan...
This paper presents an integrated approach for Web-based collaborative manufacturing, including distributed process planning, dynamic scheduling, real-time monitoring, and remote c...
Abstract: Model based development, like proposed by the OMG’s Model Driven Arre (MDA), aims to raise the level of abstraction from working on the code to working with models. For...
Coupling and cohesion between subsystems are commonly studied metrics when analyzing the architecture of software systems. It is usually desirable for subsystems to have high cohe...