Mobile agent systems have many attractive features including asynchrony, openness, dynamicity and anonymity, which makes them indispensable in designing complex modern application...
A customer of high assurance software recently sponsored a software engineering experiment in which a small real-time software system was developed concurrently by two popular sof...
The aim of our research is to provide a unified model for the composition and management of consumer care services. We identify design, composition, distribution and management as...
Kumari Wickramasinghe, Christian Guttmann, Michael...
Perhaps the most successful agent architectures, and certainly the best known, are those based on the Belief-Desire-Intention (BDI) framework. Despite the wealth of research that ...
The conversion of a legacy system to a system based on a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) package demands a dedicated guidance. The assumption that it is just a matter of adopting ...