The application of software agent technology to the management of communications' infrastructures is a challenging domain as it requires management on different time scales a...
Alex L. Hayzelden, John Bigham, Stefan Poslad, Phi...
In a component-based development approach system integration generally implies the packaging and deployment of a group of software components on hardware units, possibly hiding th...
The selection process is a crucial activity of the development of COTS-based systems. A key step of the evaluation of COTS components carried out during selection is the matching b...
Carina Alves, Xavier Franch, Juan Pablo Carvallo, ...
Distributed programming environments commonly restrict programmers to one form of intercomponent interaction. This forces programmers to emulate other interaction styles in terms o...
A world model for ubiquitous computing environments is presented. It can be dynamically organized like a tree based on geographical containment, such as in a user-room-floor-build...