Current object-oriented development practice is centered around application frameworks. In this paper, we argue that this approach is misleading, as it distracts from the ultimate...
Agent architectures have to cope with a number of internal properties (concerns), such as autonomy, learning, and mobility. As the agent complexity increases, these agent propertie...
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...
Active applications can add value to communication. Yet it involves sophisticated domain knowledge and complex development process. In this paper we discuss a framework for the co...
Peer-to-peer file sharing networks have emerged as a new popular application in the Internet scenario. In this paper, we provide an analytical model of the resources size and of t...
Mauro Andreolini, Riccardo Lancellotti, Philip S. ...