Generally, code clones are regarded as one of the factors that make software maintenance more difficult. A code clone is a set of source code fragments identical or similar to ea...
To integrate a software component into a system, it must interact properly with the system's other components. Unfortunately,the decisions about how a component is to interac...
Reusable components equipped with strict guarantees of quality can help reestablish software development on a stronger footing, by taking advantage of the scaling effect of reuse ...
A key question in the field of agent-oriented software engineering is how the kind and extent of autonomy owned by computational agents can be appropriately captured. As long as ...
Abstract— The design of robotic systems involves contributions from several areas of science and engineering. Electrical, mechanical and software components must be integrated to...