: After over a decade of use, design patterns continue to find new areas of application. In previous work, we presented a contract formalism for specifying patterns precisely, and...
Neelam Soundarajan, Jason O. Hallstrom, Adem Delib...
Several methodologies based on Multi-agent Systems (MAS) already exist. They help designers to describe software or to create MAS which aim at solving complex problems by simulati...
Nicolas Marilleau, Christophe Lang, Pascal Chatonn...
This paper discusses the issues that arise in the design and implementation of an industrialstrength evolutionary-based system for the optimization of the monthly work schedules f...
Many geographical applications deal with spatial objects that cannot be adequately described by determinate, crisp concepts because of their intrinsically indeterminate and vague ...
AspectJ was designed as a seamless aspect-oriented extension of the Java programming language. However, unlike Java, AspectJ does not have a safe type system: an accepted binding ...