One approach to agent communication is to insist that agents not only send messages, but support them with reasons why those messages are appropriate. This is argumentation-based c...
Software Product Line (SPL) engineering allows designers to reason about an entire family of software applications, instead of a single product, with a strategic importance for the...
Mauro Caporuscio, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pellicci...
Ambient Intelligence is a research area that has gained a lot of attention in recent years. One of the most important issues for ambient intelligent systems is to perceive the envi...
This chapter tackles the relation between declarative languages and multi-agent systems by following the dictates of the five Ws (and one H) that characterize investigations. The ...
Observation is becoming a crucial issue in the engineering of today's systems: the common practice for dealing with their complexity is to encapsulate their subcomponents abs...