Several agent-oriented software engineering methodologies address the emerging challenges posed by the increasing need of adaptive software. A common denominator of such methodolo...
Learning how to create, test, and revise models is a central skill in scientific reasoning. We argue that qualitative modeling provides an appropriate level of representation for ...
Kenneth D. Forbus, Karen Carney, Bruce L. Sherin, ...
The use of dynamic information to aid in software understanding is a common practice nowadays. One of the many approaches concerns the comprehension of execution traces. A major i...
Bas Cornelissen, Danny Holten, Andy Zaidman, Leon ...
Large software projects often require a programmer to make changes to unfamiliar source code. This paper presents the results of a formative observational study of seven professio...
Robert DeLine, Amir Khella, Mary Czerwinski, Georg...
While the sociality of software agents drives toward the definition of institutions for multi agent systems, their autonomy requires that such institutions be ruled by appropriate...