We have implemented an application-independent collaboration manager, called Collagen, based on the SharedPlan theory of discourse, and used it to build a software interface agent for a simple air travel application. The software agent provides intelligent, mixed initiative assistance without

Hardware/Software Interface plays an important role in co-design of the embedded computer system. It links the software part and the hardware part of the system. The design process supports software interface implementation and hardware interface synthesis. This report shows how the hardware

In [Perry 85] we reported work in progress on the analysis of software interface faults in a large software system. In this update of that work, we complete the analysis of the interface faults for this large system and extend our results. In our original analysis, we determined that there were 15

Heuristic evaluation is an informal method of usability analysis where a number of evaluators are presented with an interface design and asked to comment on it. Four ex-periments showed that individual evaluators were mostly quite bad at doing such heuristic evaluations and that they only found

Agent-oriented techniques represent an exciting new means of analysing, designing and building complex software systems. They have the potential to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. Yet, to date

The purpose of this paper is to build the foundation for software architecture. We first develop an intuition for software architecture by appealing to several well-established architectural disciplines. On the basis of this intuition, we present a model of software architec-ture that consists

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Conventional type systems specify interfaces in terms of values and domains.

practitioners on multicomputing architectures has been much less than one might expect. One reason for this stems from the fact that there is no unifying software environment from which to easily encode and thus directly apply new message-passing parallelization methodologies presented in the literature to real

Handheld computers and small devices that present users a visible software interface are not a new concept, but I found that research in this field has increased significantly within the last several years. I think part of this can be attributed to major reductions in the cost of manufacturing