— This paper introduces the Extensible Agent Behavior Specification Language (XABSL) as a pragmatic tool for engineering the behavior of autonomous agents in complex and dynamic...
The Object-Oriented Petri Nets (OOPN) based integrated solution to a grid-based application system modeling and enacting is proposed in this paper for simplifying designs and devel...
In this paper we develop a novel probabilistic model of computational trust that explicitly deals with correlated multi-dimensional contracts. Our starting point is to consider an...
Steven Reece, Alex Rogers, Stephen Roberts, Nichol...
The design and development of complex software systems is a difficult task, and it is not easy to ensure the quality of a developed software. The paper presents an architectural ...
Software systems development happens within a context which organizational processes are wellestablished. Hence, software needs to be built with flexible architectures based in so...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...