Object orientation and component-based development have both proven useful for the elaboration of open distributed systems. These paradigms are offered by the Creol language. Creo...
From a conceptual point of view, belief revision and learning are quite similar. Both methods change the belief state of an intelligent agent by processing incoming information. Ho...
Thomas Leopold, Gabriele Kern-Isberner, Gabriele P...
In an open Multi-Agent System, the goals of agents acting on behalf of their owners often conflict with each other. Therefore, a personal agent protecting the interest of a single...
Ruben Stranders, Mathijs de Weerdt, Cees Witteveen
Architecture has been identified as a main tool for high quality system development. It encapsulates the earliest design decisions of the system under development. These decisions...
—In this paper, we present a new block budgeting algorithm which speeds up timing closure in timing driven hierarchical flows. After a brief description of the addressed flow, ...