Abstract. Design by contract is a well known theory that views software construction as based on contracts between clients (callers) and suppliers (routines), relying on mutual obl...
A key challenge for agent-oriented software engineering is to develop and implement open systems composed of interacting autonomous agents. On the one hand, there is a need for pe...
Wilfried Brauer, Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatso...
Abstract. The Agent Modeling Language (AML) is a semi-formal visual modeling language, specified as an extension to UML 2.0. It is a consistent set of modeling constructs designed...
Open multi-agent systems need to cope with the characteristics of the Internet, e.g., dynamic availability of computational resources, latency, and diversity of services. Large-sc...
Benno J. Overeinder, Frances M. T. Brazier, Olivie...
of modelling abstractions to map from items in the real-world to objects in the computational domain is oth for the effective implementation of abstract problem solutions and for ...
Mariusz Nowostawski, Geoff Bush, Martin K. Purvis,...