Abstract. We present a method to specify software for a special kind of safetycritical embedded systems, where sensors deliver low-level values that must be abstracted and pre-proc...
Message passing overhead is often a substantial source of runtime overhead in object-oriented applications. To combat this performance problem, a number of techniques have been de...
: This paper summarizes a model of interaction for CVEs inspired by the process followed in human communication in the real world, detailing both the main elements and the communic...
This paper presents the Esperanto Broker, a communication platform for nomadic computing applications. By using this broker, developers can model application components as a set of...
The application of software agent technology to the management of communications' infrastructures is a challenging domain as it requires management on different time scales a...
Alex L. Hayzelden, John Bigham, Stefan Poslad, Phi...