The upstream activities of software development projects are often viewed as both the most important, the least understood, and hence the most problematic. This is particularly no...
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
Formal analysis remains outside the mainstream of system design practice. Interactive methods and tools are regarded by some to be on the margin of useful research in this area. Al...
Debugging concurrent programs is difficult. This is primarily because the inherent non-determinism that arises because of scheduler interleavings makes it hard to easily reproduc...
Java is one of the most popular programming languages for the development of portable workstation and server applications available today. Because of its clean design and typesafe...