: This paper presents the principles of concept-driven engineering and the ConceptManager tool as an implementation of these principles. Concept-Driven Engineering is capable of el...
Recently, service orientation has increasingly been debated both in research and practice. While researchers postulate a paradigm shift towards services as the basic unit of excha...
Formal dialectic systems have been suggested as a means to model inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. The formal dialectic systems of Hamblin are practical models for ...
The JAVA CARD transaction mechanism can ensure that a sequence of statements either is executed to completion or is not executed at all. Transactions make verification of JAVA CARD...
The AgentSpeak agent-oriented programming language has recently been extended with a number of new features, such as speech-act based communication, internal belief additions, and...
Natasha Alechina, Rafael H. Bordini, Jomi Fred H&u...