Open component architectures, such as CORBA, allow software systems to be composed of independent components. The behavior of components is described with a mixture of an interfac...
Abstract: The use of meta-level architectures for the implementation of faulttolerant systems is today very appealing. Nevertheless, all existing fault-tolerant systems based on th...
— Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are an indispensable tool for marine scientists to study the world’s oceans. The Slocum glider is a buoyancy driven AUV designed for mis...
We propose an approach that takes as input a task model, which includes the user's view of the interactive system, and automatically discovers a set of categorized and ranked...
— Multi-server and multi-queue architectures are common mechanisms used in a large variety of applications (call centers, Web services, computer systems). One of the major motiva...