Many approaches of the agent paradigm emphasize the social and intentional features of their systems, what are called social properties. The study of these aspects demands their ow...
Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full kno...
Prototyping is a valuable technique to help software engineers explore the design space while gaining insight on the dynamics of the system. In this paper, we describe a method for...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, David Stuart Robertson...
Discovering and studying emergent phenomena are among the most important activities in social research. Replicating this phenomenon in "the lab" using simulation is an i...
Requirements elicitation for a software system is a key stage in a successful development. At the same time, it is one of the most challenging, because requirements have to conside...