Little guidance and few methods are available to refine a set of software requirements into an architecture satisfying those requirements. Part of the challenge stems from the fac...
Autonomous software agents provide a promising solution to the needs of decentralised networked systems, able to adapt their behaviour in a complex and dynamically changing environ...
Abstract. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) places models as firstclass artifacts throughout the software lifecycle. In this context, model transformations are crucial for the succes...
Gerti Kappel, Philip Langer, Werner Retschitzegger...
Traditional data-oriented programming languages such as dataflow s and stream languages provide a natural abstraction for parallel programming. In these languages, a developer fo...
Commercial-off-the-shelf components (COTS) are widely reused at present and black-box composition is the unique way to integrate them into the target system. However, various mism...