—“Autonomic systems” merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing...
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
For any computing system to be secure, both hardware and software have to be trusted. If the hardware layer in a secure system is compromised, not only it would be possible to ext...
Andrea Pellegrini, Valeria Bertacco, Todd M. Austi...
The memory bandwidth largely determines the performance and energy cost of embedded systems. At the compiler level, several techniques improve the memory bandwidth at the scope of...
The representation of goals and the ability to reason about them play an important role in goal-oriented requirements analysis and modelling techniques, especially in agent-orient...
Vito Morreale, Susanna Bonura, Giuseppe Francavigl...