Multi-agent systems have proven to be a powerful technology for building complex distributed applications. However, the process of designing, configuring and deploying agent-based...
Csongor Nyulas, Martin J. O'Connor, Samson W. Tu, ...
Few ontologies in the ecological domain exist, but their development can take advantage of gained experience in other domains and from existing modeling practices in ecology. Taxon...
Concurrency is one of the most important issues in system-level design. Interleaving among parallel processes can cause an extremely large number of different behaviors, making de...
The backends of today’s Internet services rely heavily on caching at various layers both to provide faster service to common requests and to reduce load on back-end components. ...
Alexander Rasmussen, Emre Kiciman, V. Benjamin Liv...
Scenarios and goals are effective and popular techniques for requirements definition. Validation is essential in order to ensure that they represent what stakeholders actually wan...