The design of complex systems requires powerful mechanisms for modeling state, concurrent events, and real-time behavior; as well as for visualising and structuring systems in ord...
The vision of dataspaces has been articulated as providing various of the benefits of classical data integration but with reduced up-front costs, which, combined with opportunitie...
Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Lu Mao, Norma...
In this paper, we demonstrate a policy based approach for building and managing large scale agent based systems. We identify different classes of policies for agent based componen...
Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed
Software infrastructures and applications more and more must deal with data available in a variety of different storage engines, accessible through a multitude of protocols and in...
Marc Van Cappellen, Wouter Cordewiner, Carlo Innoc...
This paper presents a mechanism for dividing an agent oriented application into the three IEEE defined scoping levels of essential, conditional and optional. This mechanism is ap...