History repeats itself. Since the invention of the programmable computer, numerous computer scientists keep dedicating their professional lives to the design of “the single, bes...
Many approaches and tools assist the various tasks required to develop a multi-agent system (MAS), yet there still remains a gap between the generation of MAS models and program co...
Model checking is an automated technique for verifying that a system satisfies a set of required properties. Such properties are typically expressed as temporal logic formulas, in...
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) plays an important role in the next generation computing models for scientific and commercial applications. But difficulties in the development...
Introducing enterprise information systems (EIS) is usually associated with high costs. It is therefore crucial to understand those factors that determine or influence these costs....