In architecture companies, work is very often performed by several individuals. From conceptual design to the construction of a final product, the object passes through many hands,...
Daniel Pinho, Adriana Santarosa Vivacqua, Sé...
As the "system-on-a-chip" concept is rapidly becoming a reality, time-to-market and product complexity push the reuse of complex macromodules. Circuits combining a varie...
This paper introduces a formally specified design of a compositional generic agent model (GAM). This del abstracts from specific application domains; it provides a unified formal ...
Frances M. T. Brazier, Catholijn M. Jonker, Jan Tr...
While there are many useful models of agents and multi-agent systems, they are typically defined in an informal way and applied in an ad-hoc fashion. Consequently, multi-agent sys...
Vincent Hilaire, Olivier Simonin, Abder Koukam, Ja...
Quality and economical aspects of software development are strictly related. Adaptability, as a feature of quality, fosters reuse and the resulting economies of scale. Domain anal...
Paolo Predonzani, Giancarlo Succi, Andrea Valerio,...