In the past few years, the Multi-agent systems (MAS) area has presented an accelerated growth. New techniques and tools are constantly being proposed and several methodologies have...
Engineering systems of heterogeneous agents is a difficult task; one of the ways for achieving the successful industrial deployment of agent technology is the development of engine...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Ivana Gungui, A...
This paper is meant to motivate tools and methods research in the field of model-based embedded software development. In particular, we include usage scenarios to describe how an a...
Ken Butts, Dave Bostic, Alongkrit Chutinan, Jeffre...
Jackal is a Java-based tool for communication using the KQML agent communication language. Some features that make it extremely valuable to agent development are its conversation ...
R. Scott Cost, Timothy W. Finin, Yannis Labrou, Xi...
Frameworks and libraries that use annotations are becoming popular. However, there is not enough software engineering support for annotation development. In particular, the validat...