Two key issues in building multi-agent systems concern their scalability and engineering open systems. We offer solutions to these potential problems by introducing a lifecycle fo...
Wamberto Weber Vasconcelos, David Stuart Robertson...
The problems posed by mission-critical legacy systems - brittleness, inflexibility, isolation, non-extensibility, lack of openness etc. - are well known, but practical solutions h...
Bing Wu, Deirdre Lawless, Jesus Bisbal, Jane Grims...
Software has become strategic to developing effective distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems. Next-generation DRE systems, such as total ship computing environments, coo...
: Object-oriented technology has become mature enough to satisfy many new requirements coming from areas like computer-aided design (CAD), computer-integrated manufacturing (CIM), ...
Potentially one of the most significant opportunities for enterprise integration is the recent development and advancement of agent based systems. However, before agents can be us...
Elizabeth A. Kendall, Margaret T. Malkoun, Chong H...