The Action Semantics for UML provides a standard and platform independent way to describe the behavior of methods and executable actions in object-oriented system design prior to i...
The purpose of this paper is to argue that research and practice of ISD could substantially benefit from interpreting ISD as knowledge work. Two distinct areas of competence are i...
The architectural level plays a major role in the engineering of computer based systems. Having proper means for representing the architecture of a system is a crucial element of ...
Component-based software engineering (CBSE) and the use of (de-facto) standard component models have gained popularity in recent years, particularly in the development of desktop ...
: This paper presents the Process for Agent Specification, Simulation and Implementation (PASSIM), a simulation-based development process for Multi-agent Systems (MASs), which was ...