Design for change is a well-known adagium in software engineering. We separate concerns, employ well-designed interfaces, and the like to ease evolution of the systems we build. W...
Situated software systems are an emerging class of systems that are predominantly pervasive, embedded, and mobile. They are marked with a high degree of unpredictability and dynam...
Deshan Cooray, Sam Malek, Roshanak Roshandel, Davi...
Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivatea methodology, called Tropos, for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion ...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
Studying how a software system has evolved over time is difficult, time consuming, and costly; existing techniques are often limited in their applicability, are hard to extend, a...
A method is described for the analysis and the verification of safety in software systems. The method offers a formal notation for describing the software structure, the means for ...