Software development can be thought of as the evolution act requirements into a concrete software system. The evolution, achieved through a successive series of elaborations and r...
Jamie L. Smith, Shawn A. Bohner, D. Scott McCricka...
This paper describes an agent-based architecture designed to support the interoperation of distributed and disparate information processing tools and resources. This work is based...
Stephen Cranefield, Emanuela Moreale, Bryce McKinl...
The ‘engineering’ and ‘adaptive’ approaches to system production are distinguished. It is argued that producing reliable self-organised software systems (SOSS) will necessa...
This paper introduces a Collaborative Virtual Environment (CVE) system over the Internet. A Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) 97-based user interface is developed to permit...
Trust and reputation measures are crucial in distributed open systems where agents need to decide whom or what to choose. Existing work has mainly focused on the reputation of sing...