Concurrent engineering has been widely used in managing design projects to speed up the design process by concurrently performing multiple tasks. Since the progress of a design tas...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...
1 Step-wise refinement (SWR) asserts that complex programs can be derived from simple programs by progressively adding features. The length of a program specification is the number...
The growing need for personalization and device independence calls for effective ways of engineering adaptive Web applications. This requires formats, languages and structured pro...
Load forecasting has become in recent years one of the major areas of research in electrical engineering. In a deregulated, competitive power market, utilities tend to maintain the...