Abstract: With information infrastructures getting more and more complex, it becomes necessary to give automated support for managing the evolution of the infrastructure. If change...
Systems development methodologies continue to be a central area of research in software engineering. As the nature of applications and systems usage move increasingly towards open ...
Luiz Marcio Cysneiros, Vera Werneck, Eric S. K. Yu
A clear terminology is essential in every research discipline. In the context of ESOA, a lot of confusion exists about the meaning of the terms emergence and self-organisation. One...
For extended enterprises, value-chain integration means that enterprise business systems can no longer be confined to internal processes, applications, and data repositories. What...
Multi-agent systems (MASs), comprised of autonomous entities with the aim to cooperate to reach a common goal, may be viewed as computational models of distributed complex systems ...