Abstract. Current trends in software development show a move towards supporting autonomous components (agents). The accurate timing of interactions between such components is growi...
In Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), service composition integrates existing services to fulfill specific tasks using a set of standards and tools. However, current service comp...
Hua Xiao, Ying Zou, Ran Tang, Joanna Ng, Leho Nigu...
Software inspection is an effective way to assess product quality and to reduce the number of defects. In a software inspection the inspection meeting is a key activity to agree o...
Programmers often create similar code snippets or reuse existing code snippets by copying and pasting. Code clones —syntactically and semantically similar code snippets—can ca...
A principal goal of agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) is to provide the mechanisms for reusing, maintaining and allowing the evolution of agent-based software systems. Ou...