A style-aware architectural middleware for resource-constrained, distributed systems

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 256-272

  Malek, Sam ^a   Mikic Rakic, Marija ^b   Medvidovic, Nenad ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

^b GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Architectural style; Middleware; Prism MW; Software architecture

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; DATA COMPRESSION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; MIDDLEWARE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA; SEMANTICS;

ARCHITECTURAL STYLE; PRISM-MW; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 21244493287     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2005.29     Document Type: Article

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