A quality-of-service-based framework for creating distributed heterogeneous software components

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1009-1034

  Raje, Rajeev R ^a   Bryant, Barrett R ^b   Olson, Andrew M ^a   Auguston, Mikhail ^c   Burt, Carol ^b  

^a Purdue University School of Science   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c New Mexico State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed systems; Formal methods; Generative domain models; Heterogeneous components; Quality of service; Two level grammar

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL GRAMMARS; COMPUTER HARDWARE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FORMAL LANGUAGES; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

COMPONENT BASED SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036785114     PISSN: 15320626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpe.707     Document Type: Article

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