Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity for building open, distributed, and evolving software required by systems such as information integration application...
In SMP clusters it is not always convenient to switch from pure message-passing code to hybrid software designs that exploit shared memory. This paper tackles the problem of restru...
: Software for safety-critical systems has to deal with the hazards identified by safety analysis in order to make the system safe, risk-free and fail-safe. Software safety is a co...
This paper describes SOPA, a component framework that is an essential part of the lecture recording system E-Chalk. It envisages a general processing and streaming architecture fe...