Abstract. The idea of component-based software engineering was proposed more that 40 years ago, yet only few robotics software frameworks follow these ideas. The main problem with ...
Business-to-Business (B2B) collaboration is becoming a pivotal way to bring today’s enterprises to success in the dynamically changing e-business environment. Though many busine...
The support of QoS properties in component-based software requires the run-time selection of appropriate concrete QoS contracts at the ports of the interacting components. Such a s...
Abstract. We present a framework to extend the concept of type systems in programming languages to capture the dynamic interaction in component-based design, such as the communicat...
— Smart Diagram Environments (SDEs) are software applications that use structured diagrams to provide a natural visual interface that behaves as if the computer “understands”...