This paper studies commitments in multiagent systems. A dialectical commitment corresponds to an agent taking a position about a putative fact, including for the sake of argument....
The development of locative media applications is not simply about the physical location or social setting in which the interaction occurs, but rather about situating the media wi...
Katharine S. Willis, Keith Cheverst, Claudia Muell...
Good components need precise contracts. In the practice of Design by ContractTM , applications and libraries typically express, in their postconditions and class invariants, only a...
The past ten years have seen a radical shift in business application software development. Rather than developing software from scratch using a conventional programming language, ...
The OSGiTM Service Platform is becoming the de facto standard for modularized Java applications. The market of OSGi based COTS components is continuously growing. OSGi specific pro...