Abstract. We propose an extension of concurrent constraint programming with primitives for process migration within a hierarchical network, and we study its semantics. To this purp...
Several agent-oriented software engineering methodologies address the emerging challenges posed by the increasing need of adaptive software. A common denominator of such methodolo...
: UML statecharts are used for describing dynamic aspects of system behavior. The work presented here extends a general Petri net-based methodology to support formal modeling of UM...
We propose a unifying framework for model-based specification notations. Our framework captures the execution semantics that are common among model-based notations, and leaves the...
Abstract. MALLET is a team-oriented agent specification and programming language. In this paper, we define an operational semantics for MALLET in terms of a transition system. Th...
Xiaocong Fan, John Yen, Michael S. Miller, Richard...