Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...
—Contracts and their composition may be used with different goals in a component-based design flow: on the one hand, a component contract describes the guarantees a component is...
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From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
For the past 40 years, the techniques, processes and methods of software development have been dominated by supply-side issues, giving rise to a software industry oriented towards...
Keith H. Bennett, Paul J. Layzell, David Budgen, P...