AOSE methodologies and models borrow various abstractions and concepts from the organization and sociology disciplines. Although they all ti-agent system as organized society, the ...
Performance is a pervasive quality of software systems; everything affects it, from the software itself to all underlying layers, such as operating system, middleware, hardware, c...
The types of awareness relevant to collaborative software engineering are identified and an additional type, “historical awareness” is proposed. This new type of awareness is...
Software systems in safety-critical industrial automation systems, such as power plants and steel mills, become increasingly large, complex, and distributed. For assessing risks, l...
The past ten years have seen a radical shift in business application software development. Rather than developing software from scratch using a conventional programming language, ...