The missing of an appropriate semantics of agent communication languages is one of the most challenging issues of contemporary AI. Although several approaches to this problem exis...
Matthias Nickles, Michael Rovatsos, Gerhard Wei&sz...
Abstract. Graphs are an intuitive model for states of a (software) system that include pointer structures — for instance, object-oriented programs. However, a naive encoding resu...
This paper gives an overview of the ArchWare European Project1 . The broad scope of ArchWare is to respond to the ever-present demand for software systems that are capable of accom...
Most of the Agent-Oriented software engineering methodologies that have been developed in the last years tend to propose a model-based approach to software development. To be put i...
In order for middleware systems to be adaptive, their properties and services need to support a wide variety of application-specific policies. However, application developers and ...