PARP 1 A design pattern for component oriented development of agent-based multithreaded applications A case study in computer vision Pedro E. López-de-Teruel 1 , A.L. Rodriguez 1 , A. Ruiz 2 , G. Garcia-Mateos 2 , L. Fernández 1 pedroe@ditec.um.es, alrl1@alum.es, aruiz@um.es, ginesgm@um.es, lfmaimo@ditec.um.es Dpto. Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores 1 Dpto. Informática y Sistemas 2 University of Murcia (Spain) Artificial Perception and Pattern Recognition Research Group (PARP)