The flexible integration of a range of disparate IT applications is a key requirement for today's global enterprises. The virtual enterprise, formed by a collection of collab...
Mirror-based systems are object-oriented reflective architectures built around a set of design principles that lead to reflective APIs which foster a high degree of reusability, l...
Stijn Mostinckx, Tom Van Cutsem, Stijn Timbermont,...
Among related synchronous programming principles, the model of computation of the Polychrony workbench stands out by its capability to give high-level description of systems where...
Jean-Pierre Talpin, Christian Brunette, Thierry Ga...
We present a module calculus for studying a simple model of link-time compilation. The calculus is stratified into a term calculus, a core module calculus, and a linking calculus. ...
It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...