The increasing diffusion of ubiquitous communication infrastructures and physical active objects --like sensors and smart tags-- is motivating the integration of these devices int...
Luciano Baresi, Paolo Beretta, Roberto Fraccapani,...
Abstract. We are developing a methodology of Test-Driven Development of Models (TDDM) based on an experimental UML2.0 modeling tool SMART. Our experience shows that TDDM is quite u...
Susumu Hayashi, Pan YiBing, Masami Sato, Kenji Mor...
A Multi-agent system (MAS) is an open distributed system of agents. The agents in a MAS may form certain specific groups, where agents in each group jointly engage in solving a s...
The impact of process variation in state of the art technology makes traditional (worst case) designs unnecessarily pessimistic, which translates to suboptimal designs in terms of...
There have been numerous attempts to provide a standardized definition of a computational agent, but little consensus has emerged. We propose a simple test for agenthood that can ...