: The techniques of meta-modeling and meta-levels have become a mature concept and have been largely used to solve real problems in programming languages, distributed environments,...
In the state-of-the-art hardware/software (HW/SW) codesign of embedded systems, there is a lack of sufficient support for architectural specifications across HW/SW boundaries. S...
Juncao Li, Nicholas T. Pilkington, Fei Xie, Qiang ...
Software architecture descriptions are high-level models of software systems. Some researchers have proposed specialpurpose architectural notations that have a great deal of expre...
Jason E. Robbins, Nenad Medvidovic, David F. Redmi...
Abstract. Mobile-agent systems must address three security issues: protecting an individual machine, protecting a group of machines, and protecting an agent. In this chapter, we di...
Robert S. Gray, David Kotz, George Cybenko, Daniel...
Abstract. To formally describe architectures of software systems, specific languages called Architecture Description Languages (ADLs) have been developed by academic institutions a...