Current IT application domains such as web services and autonomic computing call for highly flexible systems, able to automatically adapt to changing operational environments as w...
Loris Penserini, Anna Perini, Angelo Susi, John My...
Abstract. The UML-based Specification Environment (USE) tool supports the syntactic analysis, type checking, consistency checking, and dynamic validation of invariants and pre-/pos...
Wuliang Sun, Eunjee Song, Paul C. Grabow, Devon M....
Abstract. The paper proposes a dialectic approach to exploit discrepancies of viewpoints for learning. The approach is illustrated with an elaborated example. A computational frame...
Abstract. While agents and environments are two intimately connected concepts, most approaches for multi-agent development focus on the agent-specific part of the system, whereas ...
Cooperation enforcement is one of the key issues in ad hoc networks. In this paper we proposes a new strategy driven approach that aims at discouraging selfish behavior among netwo...
Marcin Seredynski, Pascal Bouvry, Mieczyslaw A. Kl...