Software designers compose systems from components written in some prolanguage. They regularly describe systems using abstract patterns and sophisticated relations among component...
In this paper, we will consider two aspects of UML in order to assess how well suited it is for modeling SPARK systems. The first aspect is the ability to represent SPARK in UML f...
We propose a preliminary methodology for agent-oriented software engineering based on the idea of agent interaction analysis. This approach uses interactions between undetermined a...
OCAMS is a practical engineering application of multi-agent systems technology, involving redesign of the tools and practices in a complex, distributed system. OCAMS is designed to...
William J. Clancey, Maarten Sierhuis, Chin Seah, C...
ion that the system under development is looked at. We outline a mapping relating exceptions at a high level action to exceptions and other software artifacts at vels of abstractio...