Agents are systems capable of perceiving their environment through sensors, reasoning about their sensory input using some characteristic reasoning process and acting in their env...
There have been significant advances on formal methods to verify complex systems recently. Nevertheless, these methods have not yet been accepted as a realistic alternative to the ...
In this paper, after a short review of the dichotomous view of norms usually seen as either regular behaviors or obligations issued by authorities, norms are proposed to be defined...
Rosaria Conte, Giulia Andrighetto, Marco Campenn&i...
The effects of combining search and modelling techniques can be complex and unpredictable, so guidelines are very important for the design and development of effective and robust s...
There is wide agreement that architecture plays a prominent role in large, complex software systems. Selection of an appropriate architecture – one that matches the system requi...