Commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software tends to be cheap, reliable, and functionally powerful due to its large user base. It has thus become highly desirable to incorporate COTS ...
General-purpose middleware, by definition, cannot readily support domain-specific semantics without significant manual efforts in specializing the middleware. This paper prese...
Sumant Tambe, Akshay Dabholkar, Aniruddha S. Gokha...
The concept of responsibility aims at making a computing system trustworthy for its users despite the fact that failures of IT systems cannot be completely excluded. The presented ...
For software agents to become part of e-commerce they have to be flexible—to engage in negotiations of forms which are not known in advance, and mobile—to migrate to remote lo...
Costin Badica, Maria Ganzha, Marcin Paprzycki, Ama...
— Smart Diagram Environments (SDEs) are software applications that use structured diagrams to provide a natural visual interface that behaves as if the computer “understands”...