Agent technologies are now being considered for automating tasks in e-commerce applications. However, conventional software agents with predefined functions, but without the abilit...
Qiming Chen, Umeshwar Dayal, Meichun Hsu, Martin L...
In a de-regulated market the distribution utilities will compete with added value for the customer in addition to the delivery of energy. We describe a system consisting of a colle...
An important goal of software engineering is to exploit commonalities in system design in order to reduce the complexity of building new systems, support largescale reuse, and pro...
e Abstraction Arie Gurfinkel1 , Ou Wei2 , and Marsha Chechik2 1 Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University 2 Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto A...
Due to the shift from software-as-a-product (SaaP) to software-as-a-service (SaaS), software components that were developed to run in a single address space must increasingly be a...