A key aspect of the Object-Oriented (OO) approach is that a designer can enrich an OO system by providing suitable (re-)definitions for some of the methods of the given system. A...
Recently, a number of frameworks were proposed to extend interface theory to the domains of single-processor and distributed real-time systems. This paper unifies some of these ap...
Lothar Thiele, Ernesto Wandeler, Nikolay Stoimenov
Abstract. We present a technique for designing reconfiguration controllers in the Fractal component-based framework. We obtain discrete control loops that automatically enforce saf...
The effort and time required to develop user interface models has been one of the main limitations to the adoption of model-based approaches, which enable intelligent processing o...
Federico Bellucci, Giuseppe Ghiani, Fabio Patern&o...
Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...