Abstract. A self-managed system is both self-assembling and selfhealing. Service-oriented Computing (SoC) architectures, such as a Web Services Architecture (WS-A) illustrate a hig...
Normative environments are used to regulate multiagent interactions. In business encounters, agents representing business entities make contracts including norms that prescribe wh...
While recent research on rule learning has focussed largely on finding highly accurate hypotheses, we evaluate the degree to which these hypotheses are also simple, that is small....
In this paper we present a method of describing microprocessors at different levels of temporal and data abstraction. We consider microprogrammed, pipelined and superscalar proces...
Based on many experiences of developing interactive systems by the authors, a framework for the description and analysis of interaction has been developed. The dimensions of this m...