— The subject of the present investigation is Population-based Adaptive Systems (PAS), as implemented in the NEW TIES platform. In many existing PASs two adaptation mechanisms ar...
In this paper, we introduce MaDcAr, a model of engines for dynamic and automatic (re)assembling of component-based software. In MaDcAr, an application description consists of the d...
— With the advent of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) several model transformation approaches and languages have been developed in the last 5 years. Most of these existing approach...
Manuel Wimmer, Michael Strommer, Horst Kargl, Gerh...
We introduce a novel Ontology-based Argumentation Framework (OAF) that links a logic-based argumentation formalism and description logic ontologies. We show how these two formalis...
We address the problem of standardising the semantics of agent communication. The diversity of existing approaches suggests that no single agent communication language can satisfa...