Abstract. The deployment of agent societies —as complex systems— in dynamic and unpredictable settings brings forth critical issues concerning their design. Organizational mode...
Loris Penserini, Virginia Dignum, Athanasios Staik...
Abstract. A temporal interface for a software component is a finite automaton that specifies the legal sequences of calls to functions that are provided by the component. We comp...
Performance is an important quality attribute that needs to be and managed proactively. Abstract models of the system are not very useful if they do not produce reasonably accurat...
Gopalakrishna Raghavan, Ari Salomaki, Raimondas Le...
A key problem in model checking open systems is environment modeling (i.e., representing the behavior of the execution context of the system under analysis). Software systems are ...
Oksana Tkachuk, Matthew B. Dwyer, Corina S. Pasare...
A primary goal of generative programming and model-driven ent is to raise the level of abstraction at which designers and developers interact with the software systems they are bui...