In this paper we apply the role metaphor to coordination. Roles are used in sociology as a way to structure organizations and to coordinate their behavior. In our model, the featu...
Matteo Baldoni, Guido Boella, Leendert W. N. van d...
Self-management is a key feature of autonomic systems. This often demands the dynamic reconfiguration of a distributed application. An important issue in the reconfiguration proce...
We define a core language combining computational and architectural primitives, and study how static typing may be used to ensure safety properties of component composition and dyn...
A company doing e-business needs capabilities to negotiate electronically the parameters of its deals in order to fully utilize the potential of the Information and Communication ...
Nikolay K. Diakov, Zlatko Zlatev, Stanislav Pokrae...
An increasing number of distributed applications are being constructed by composing them out of existing applications. The resulting applications can be very complex in structure,...