The proliferation of retail outlets with nearly identical product offerings and similar costs due to market efficiency means that selecting an appropriate market to open a store i...
Baabak Ashuri, William B. Rouse, Douglas A. Bodner
We are developing a context-aware application for use in homes, which detects high-level user behavior, such as “leaving the home” and “going to bed”, and provides services...
In this paper, we model an agent-based economy in which heterogeneous agents (firms and a bank) interact in the financial markets. The heterogeneity is due to the balance sheet ...
In this paper, we describe the process specification language ConGolog and show how it can be used to model business processes for requirements analysis. In ConGolog, the effects...
In this paper we adopt a component model based on object-oriented systems, introducing the concepts of components and their structure. A component consists of a dynamically changi...