Requirements engineering is the first stage in the software life-cycle and is concerned with discovering and managing a software system's services, constraints and goals. Req...
SweetDeal is a rule-based approach to representation of business contracts that enables software agents to create, evaluate, negotiate, and execute contracts with substantial auto...
An autonomic system is a system capable of managing itself and adjusting its actions in the face of environmental changes. Autonomic systems are currently developed using ad-hoc ap...
Since processor performance scalability will now mostly be achieved through thread-level parallelism, there is a strong incentive to parallelize a broad range of applications, inc...
Abstract. The following paper describes recent work on NED-2, an intelligent information system for ecosystem management currently in development by the USDA Forest Service. Using ...
Frederick Maier, Donald Nute, Walter D. Potter, Ji...