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...
Abstract. Inspired by P systems initiated by Gheorghe P˜aun, we study a computation model over a multiset of communicating objects. The objects in our model are instances of fini...
Some systems interact with their environment at physically distributed interfaces, called ports, and in testing such a system it is normal to place a tester at each port. Each test...
In order to build complex, large-scale, dependable systems it is necessary to use a development environment with an integrated set of capabilities that supports editing and formal...
Lian Wen, Robert Colvin, Kai Lin, John Seagrott, N...
—It is well known that requirements engineering plays a critical role in software quality. The use case approach is a requirements elicitation technique commonly used in industri...