Many approaches of the agent paradigm emphasize the social and intentional features of their systems, what are called social properties. The study of these aspects demands their ow...
Multi-agent Systems (MASs) development and Software Product Lines (SPLs) are two consolidated software engineering techniques. Recent research work explores the integration betwee...
A current trend in the software engineering community is to integrate different tools in a friendly and powerful development environment for use by final users. This is also the c...
The performance of computer systems depends, among other things, on the workload. Performance evaluations are therefore often done using logs of workloads on current productions s...
Object-oriented legacy systems are hard to maintain because they are hard to understand. One of the main understanding problems is revealed by the so-called ”yo-yo effect” tha...