This study investigates how the psychological notion of affordance, known from human computer interface design, can be adopted for the analysis and design of communication of a use...
Conversations involving three or more agents often occur in multi-agent systems, for example in brokering and auction protocols typically used in e-commerce. For developing agents ...
In component based software engineering, an application is build by composing trusted and reusable units of execution, the components. A composition is formed by connecting the com...
Recent world-wide crisis events have drawn new attention to the role information communication technology (ICT) can play in warning and response activities. Drawing on disaster so...
Message Sequence Charts (MSC) have been traditionally used to depict execution scenarios in the early stages of design cycle. MSCs portray inter-process ( inter-object) interactio...