It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
Abstract— Graphical variant modeling refers to a novel approach to object-oriented modeling whereby a class overrides behavior inherited from a parent class by specifying variati...
Distributed applications involving mobile devices interconnected by wireless networks may benefit both from multiagent technology and context-aware programming techniques. This ar...
Abstract. In formal testing, the assumption of input enabling is typically made. This assumption requires all inputs to be enabled anytime. In addition, the useful concept of quies...
To compare the outcomes of participatory and user-centered contextual design, case study methods and the Activity Checklist derived from Activity Theory are used to analyze two sy...