Several agent-oriented software engineering methodologies address the emerging challenges posed by the increasing need of adaptive software. A common denominator of such methodolo...
Abstract. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requirements and architectures remains one of the challenging problems in software engineering research. To ...
Business rules are statements that express (certain parts of) a business policy, defining business terms and defining or constraining the operations of an enterprise, in a declar...
In grid computing, agent-based load balancing is one of the most important problems. In this paper, we present a macroscopic model to describe the dynamics of agent-based load bal...
Intentional agents are charged with generating and executing intentionally plans of action towards the achievement of their goals. They operate in multi-agent systems and situatio...
Fernando Lopes, Nuno J. Mamede, Augusto Q. Novais,...