This paper presents the hardware and software architectures, and the control approaches for a distributed embedded electro-hydraulic system, a telescopic handler. The distributed architecture is justified not only by the complexity of the vehicle architecture, consisting of mechanical, electrical and hydraulic components, but also by the existence of multiple types of communication protocols. T...

In recent years, e-learning started to attract a lot of attention from researchers as well as practitioners. Many of the existing architectures of e-learning systems are mainly based on plain client-server or peer-topeer architectures and are therefore suffering from drawbacks like poor scalability or complicated interchange of content. In this paper, we present a distributed, service-oriented ...

Intelligent Mobile Agents were initially envisioned as software entities that could roam the Internet acting on behalf of their creator. However, recently the mobile agent architecture has proven to be a useful development model for distributed computing. This paper will explore several real-time distributed computing applications that can benefit from mobile agents. To fully exploit the mobile...

This article is to show a successful experience on a two-year software reuse project of Software Engineering Lab. (SEL) in Taiwan. In this research, attention is strictly focused on the interrelationships among key components that link between business processes, information applications, and information technology infrastructure. This choice is based on software reusable component design of di...

The classical nature of centralized web services client/server architecture brings about many associated problems such as performance, bottlenecks, and scalability. Meanwhile some peer-to-peer research proposals have not respected the existing web services standards, thus leaving the compatibility and feasibility issue open. Hence existing web services architecture is not designed to accommodat...

This paper describes our SoftDock system, which is a distributed model management system to support collaborative software development. SoftDock leverages the team development, tool interoperability, and model continuity across development lifecycle. It supports Unified Modeling Language (UML) to specify software models, and maintains the model information with UML eXchange Format (UXF), which ...

Adaptive Agent Oriented Software Architecture (AAOSA) is a new approach to software design based on an agent-oriented architecture. In this approach, agents are considered adaptively communicating concurrent modules that are divided into a “white box” module responsible for communications and learning and a “black box” which is responsible for the independent specialized processes. An AAOSA sys...

User-Generated Content has reshaped the landscape of the Information Marketplace during the last years. Among the content, software is a very impacting class. In comparison to regular resource, the estimation of popularity, reputation and certification of user-generated software in distributed architecture appears to be a challenging task. Furthermore how to use popularity to help user to disco...

Debugging and testing is a larger part of the effort spent in a software development cycle. Debugging a program is time consuming and is a continuous cycle of code modification and testing. The task of debugging depends on the environment, the language, the operating system: the problem: and more interestingly even the individual program. In this paper, we present a detailed implementation of s...

The goal of this dissertation is to develop a paradigm for the next generation of software applications with a clear architecture that unifies desktop and Internet applications. It is aimed at addressing the issues of leveraging existing software assets and incorporating advanced capabilities including collaboration and universal access. As the overall Web systems design on top of the Internet ...