Development and deployment via components offers the possibility of prolific software reuse. However, to achieve this potential in a component-rich environment, it is necessary to...
In the past few years, the Multi-agent systems (MAS) area has presented an accelerated growth. New techniques and tools are constantly being proposed and several methodologies have...
Engineering systems of heterogeneous agents is a difficult task; one of the ways for achieving the successful industrial deployment of agent technology is the development of engine...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Ivana Gungui, A...
The unrelenting pace of change that confronts contemporary software developers compels them to make their applications more configurable, flexible, and adaptive. In order to ach...
Ayla Dantas, Joseph W. Yoder, Paulo Borba, Ralph E...
In recent literature it is commonly agreed that the first phase of the software development process is still an area of concern. Furthermore, while software technology has been ch...