Our goal in this paper is to introduce and motivate a methodology, called Tropos,1 for building agent oriented software systems. Tropos is based on two key ideas. First, the notion...
Paolo Bresciani, Anna Perini, Paolo Giorgini, Faus...
Java-based middleware, and application servers in particular, are rapidly gaining importance as a new class of workload for commercial multiprocessor servers. SPEC has recognized ...
Martin Karlsson, Kevin E. Moore, Erik Hagersten, D...
Abstract. Software systems should evolve in order to respond to changing client requirements and their evolving environments. But unfortunately, the evolution of legacy application...
Simon Allier, Houari A. Sahraoui, Salah Sadou, St&...
SuperSwiki is a not yet well defined term. Its origins go back to Ward Cunningham's Wiki and its Squeak variant, the Swiki. It provides a place to share and edit web pages, f...
This paper focuses on first-order logic (FO) extended by reachability predicates such that the expressiveness and hence decidability properties lie between FO and monadic second-o...