Agent-based approaches in application development seem to meet the requirements of adaptability, scalability, decentralization, and flexibility imposed by complex software systems....
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology are developing a virtual manufacturing cell. This cell will contain simulation models of a wide range of manufact...
UML is a modeling language that most developers employed during design phase. UML provides various types of diagrams used for specifying both the structure and the behavior of sys...
Explicitly representing aspect interactions is vital so that they can be shared and used in the course of system evolution. As a consequence, guidance can be given to the software ...
The notion that certain procedures are atomic provides a valuable partial specification for many multithreaded software systems. Several existing tools verify atomicity by showing...