Abstract. Goal creation is an important consideration for an agent that is required to behave autonomously in a real-world domain. This paper describes an agent that is directed, n...
Interactions between agents are traditionally specified as interaction protocols using notations such as Petri nets, AUML, or finite state machines. These protocols are a poor ...
— This paper describes a controlled experiment of student programmers performing maintenance tasks on a C++ program. The goal of the study is to assess the maintenance size, effo...
Vu Nguyen, Barry W. Boehm, Phongphan Danphitsanuph...
Over the past few years, we are experiencing a surge of evolution problems related to legacy object-oriented systems. Object orientation provides means for systems to be well-desi...
Abstract. Service-oriented computing promotes the construction of applications by composing distributed services that are advertised in an open service market. In such an environme...
Domenico Bianculli, Radu Jurca, Walter Binder, Car...