Ideally in the deployment phase, components should be composable, and their composition checked. Current component models fall short of this ideal. Most models do not allow composi...
In this paper, precedence constraint combination formalisms defined in the software domain are used to define the behavior of hardware systems. Specifically, AND-join and various ...
Kenneth G. Ricks, David Jeff Jackson, B. Earl Well...
This paper discusses an approach for top-down composition of software architectures. First, an architecture is derived that addresses functional requirements only. This architectu...
Abstract. The term of a "process" is used in Software Engineering (SE) theories and practices in many different ways, which cause confusion. In this paper we will firstly...
- Software agents have been already introduced successfully in the scope of embedded technology as smart controllers of intelligent systems. This paper presents a further applicati...