In the last years, dozens of environments for modeling, testing and finally implementing multi-agent systems have been developed. Unfortunately, no standard criteria for understand...
Abstract—Software systems that do not meet their timing constraints can cause risks. In this work, we propose a comprehensive method for assessing the risk of timing failure by e...
In this paper, several examples from the literature, and one central new one, are used as case studies of texts of discourse containing an argumentation scheme that has now been w...
Most systems for content based image retrieval (CBIR) employ low level image features as a similarity measure. The problem of CBIR systems is that they are a “black box” to th...
In a history-based trust-management system, users and service providers use information about past transactions to make trust-based decisions concerning current transactions. One ...