Abstract. The continuing trend towards more sophisticated technical applications results in an increasing demand for high quality software for complex, safety-critical systems. Des...
There is a growing demand for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in the software industry. The autonomous agent interaction in a dynamic software environment can potentially lead to runtim...
The Unified Modeling Language UML is well-suited for the design of real-time systems. In particular, the design of dynamic system behaviors is supported by interaction diagrams an...
Abstract. To guarantee the security of computer systems, it is necessary to define security permissions to restrict the access to the systems' resources. These permissions enf...
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...