A Complex Adaptive System (CAS) is a network of communicating, intelligent agents where each agent adapts its behavior in order to collaborate with other agents to achieve overall...
We describe the motivation and design of a novel embedded systems architecture for large networks of small devices, tha canonical example being wireless sensor networks. The archit...
Multi-agent Systems (MASs) development and Software Product Lines (SPLs) are two consolidated software engineering techniques. Recent research work explores the integration betwee...
Abstract. Explicit behavioural interface description languages (BIDLs, protocols) are now recognized as a mandatory feature of component languages in order to address component reu...
Automatic visual inspection plays a growing role in today's efforts to reduce the costs of industrial production. Three to ten months of man power have to be invested for the...