The active components approach for distributed systems development

International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 321-369

  Pokahr, Alexander ^a   Braubach, Lars ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

component based development; distributed systems; service oriented architecture; software agents

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE COMPONENTS; COMPONENT-BASED DEVELOPMENT; DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; DYNAMIC SCENARIOS; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; NEW APPLICATIONS; NON-FUNCTIONAL CRITERION; TECHNOLOGICAL TRENDS;

INFORMATION SERVICES; SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA); SOFTWARE AGENTS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

MODEL CHECKING;

EID: 84880573186     PISSN: 17445760     EISSN: 17445779     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17445760.2013.785546     Document Type: Article

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