The emergence of applications domains such as pervasive and autonomic computing has increased the need for customisation and dynamic adaptation of both distributed systems, and th...
Paul Grace, Eddy Truyen, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joo...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivatea methodology, called Tropos, for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion ...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
This article describes a survey which aims to identify the relative importance of a set of factors that affect the motivation of software engineers at work. The conceptual underpi...
Software systems are becoming more and more complex with a large number of interacting partners often distributed over a network. A common dilemma faced by software engineers in b...
Background: Clinical protocols and guidelines have been considered as a major means to ensure that cost-effective services are provided at the point of care. Recently, the comput...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Robertson, Pa...