Services for mobile and pervasive computing should extensively exploit contextual information both to adapt to user needs and to enable autonomic behavior. This raises the problem...
Gabriella Castelli, Marco Mamei, Franco Zambonelli
The growing interest for the design and development of multi-agent systems has brought to the creation of a specific research area called Agent-Oriented Software Engineering (AOS...
The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components....
The evolution of service-oriented architectures towards digital ecosystems comprehends a number of challenges. According to Papazoglou et al., one challenge is to develop services...
Gregor Scheithauer, Konrad Voigt, Veli Bicer, Matt...
This paper suggests the need for a software engineering research community conversation about the future that the community would like to have. The paper observes that the researc...