Roles are a powerful paradigm to develop distributed applications based on agents, especially when they are in need of interacting with other entities. An agent-oriented approach ...
Abstract. Embedded systems for safety-critical applications often integrate multiple “functions” and must generally be fault-tolerant. These requirements lead to a need for mec...
This paper reports on the development of QoSOnt: an ontology for Quality of Service (QoS). Particular focus is given to its application in the field of service-centric systems. Qo...
Software testing and retesting occurs continuously during the software development lifecycle to detect errors as early as possible. The sizes of test suites grow as software evolv...
Many of today’s software applications require a high-level of security, defined by a detailed policy and attained via mechanisms such as role-based access control (RBAC), mandat...
Jaime A. Pavlich-Mariscal, Laurent Michel, Steven ...