Over recent years, "Internet-able" applications have been used to support domains where distributed functionality is essential. This flexibility is also pertinent in situ...
The OSGi Services Platform provides a framework for the dynamic deployment of Java-based applications. It allows to install, to activate, to update and to uninstall application mo...
Hierarchical software components offer interesting characteristics for the development of complex applications. However, supporting the deployment of such applications is difficult...
— During codesign of a system, one still runs into the impedance mismatch between the software and hardware worlds. er identifies the different levels of abstraction of hardware...
Philippe Faes, Mark Christiaens, Dries Buytaert, D...
This paper describes the design of a scripting language aimed at expressing task (unit of computation) composition and inter-task dependencies of distributed applications whose ex...