Virtual worlds may be enabling technologies for the next generation of business models, practices and innovations in service. We situate our research within the field of service s...
In this paper, we describe the Architecture Description Language (ADL) that we are defining for the design of agentbased systems. This aims at filing the gap between the analysis ...
Program componentization has been proved to be an effective way to increase the speed and cost-effectiveness of reusing, maintaining, and understanding existing software systems. ...
The relative tolerances for interconnect and device parameter variations have not scaled with feature sizes which have brought about significant performance variability. As we sca...
Ubiquitous applications are characterised by variations of their execution context. Their correct operation requires some continual adaptations based on the observation of their e...