Software-intensive systems often exhibit dimensions in size and complexity that exceed the scope of comprehension of even talented, experienced system designers and analysts. With ...
Many adaptative context-aware middleware exist and mostly rely on so-called vertical architectures that offer a functional decomposition for context-awareness. This architecture ...
Nicolas Ferry, Stephane Lavirotte, Jean-Yves Tigli...
Sensor networks are long-running computer systems with many sensing/compute nodes working to gather information about their environment, process and fuse that information, and in ...
The notion of functional or modular dependency is fundamental to understand the architecture and inner workings of any software system. In this paper, we propose to extend that no...
Abstract. One of the most novel features of Casl, the Common Algebraic Specification Language, is the provision of so-called architectural specifications for describing the modular...