: E-applications are increasingly being composed from individual services that can be realized with different technologies, such as, e.g., Web Services and standard component techn...
— Model-driven engineering (MDE) techniques are increasingly being used to address many of the development and operational lifecycle concerns of large-scale component-based syste...
In this paper we address the problem of combining software components with different and possibly incompatible legal licenses to create a software application that does not viola...
All known life forms process information on a molecular level. This kind of chemical information processing is known to be robust, self-organizing, adaptive, decentralized, asynch...
Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full kno...