We previously developed a component-oriented model that combines ideas from self-organizing architectures and from design by contract to address the complexity of design in multi-t...
Reimer Behrends, R. E. Kurt Stirewalt, Laura K. Di...
Component-Based Development (CBD) of software, with its successes in enterprise computing, has the promise of being a good development model due to its cost effectiveness and pote...
The most important recent development in Grid systems is the adoption of the Web services model as a basic architecture for Grid services. The result is called the Open Grid Servi...
: An important goal of workflow engines is to simplify the way in which the interaction of workflows and software components (or services) is described and implemented. The vision ...
Traditionally, qualitative simulation uses a global, state-based representation to describe the behavior of the modeled system. For larger, more complex systems this representatio...