This paper is concerned with bridging the gap between requirements, provided as a set of scenarios, and conforming design models. The novel aspect of our approach is to exploit lea...
Middleware enables distributed components to interact with each others in diverse and complex manners. Such interactions should be modeled at architecture level for controlling th...
The behavior of an agent is defined through the specification of plans and actions. Agents have a set of plans that are selected to be executed according to their goals (and other...
Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos Jo...
Today ontology languages present a syntax which looks not “natural” and are lacking of built-in primitives (i.e., modeling notions) domain experts are familiar with. In this pa...
Abstract. State machines, represented by statecharts or statechart diagrams, are an important formalism for behavioural modelling. According to the research literature, the most po...