The principal contribution of this paper is a methodology for the support of developing domain-specific software agents and the development of a Reference architecture for agents ...
As the size and complexity of software has rapidly grown during the past two decades, it has become a big challenge to assure quality of software and to curb the cost of developin...
In this paper we take advantage of the concepts developed for centralized module management, such as dynamic loading and unloading of modules, and show how they can be used to supp...
Jan S. Rellermeyer, Gustavo Alonso, Timothy Roscoe
Platform-based development is currently the dominant development method of enterprise application, but the features provided by current mainstream enterprise application developme...
This paper motivates the need for more research to ensure a consistent level of reliability in software systems. We briefly outline the relevant developments that drive this need...