Currently available application frameworks that target the automatic design of real-time embedded software are poor in integrating functional and non-functional requirements for m...
Recently, we have proposed a comprehensive agent-based e-commerce system. While UML formalized, it lacked details how basic functions – e.g. user request to purchase a given pro...
Maciej Gawinecki, Maria Ganzha, Pawel Kobzdej, Mar...
Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) is a notation used in practice by protocol designers and system engineers. It is defined within an international standard (ITU Z120), and is also i...
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...
As the interest in using policy-based approaches for systems management grows, it is becoming increasingly important to develop methods for performing analysis and refinement of p...
Arosha K. Bandara, Emil Lupu, Jonathan D. Moffett,...