Abstract. The purpose of a computerized information system is to improve dataintensive business processes in an organization. The development of such systems itself is data-intensi...
Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Matthias Jarke, Martin Staudt...
While the theoretical and experimental foundations of agent-based systems are becoming increasingly well understood, comparatively little effort has been devoted to understanding ...
It is well known how challenging is the task of coding complex agents for virtual environments. This difficulty in developing and maintaining complex agents has been plaguing com...
Partial functions and operators are used extensively in the formal development of programs and thus development methods have to clarify how to reason about them. There are a numbe...
Free/libre open source software (FLOSS, e.g., Linux or Apache) is primarily developed by distributed teams. Developers contribute from around the world and coordinate their activi...