The central idea behind interface-based design is to describe components by a component interface. In contrast to a component description that describes what a component does, a c...
Milenko Drinic UCLA Computer Science Dep. 4732 Boelter Hall Los Angeles, CA 90095-1596 milenko@cs.ucla.edu Darko Kirovski Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 da...
Architecture has been identified as a main tool for high quality system development. It encapsulates the earliest design decisions of the system under development. These decisions...
Abstract The advent of large-scale distributed systems poses unique engineering challenges. In open systems such as the internet it is not possible to prescribe the behaviour of al...
The rapid growth of service coordination languages creates a need for methodological support for coordination design. Coordination design differs from workflow design because a ...