With the growing popularity of Web services, an increasing number of Web services have been integrated into and used by complex service oriented systems. As a result, the manageme...
Martin Treiber, Hong Linh Truong, Schahram Dustdar
Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. To achieve this, an agent must be able to interact with the lea...
W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Andrew Marshall, Cath...
There is an emerging class of real-time interactive applications that require the dynamic integration of task and data parallelism. An example is the Smart Kiosk, a free-standing ...
James M. Rehg, Kathleen Knobe, Umakishore Ramachan...
Retrenchment is a framework that allows relatively unrestricted system evolution steps to be described in a way that gives an evolution step some formal content — unlike model b...
Development and deployment via components offers the possibility of prolific software reuse. However, to achieve this potential in a component-rich environment, it is necessary to...