From a software engineering perspective the World Wide Web is a new application platform. The implementation model that the Web is based on makes it difficult to apply classic proc...
We integrate data and control flow at the system specification level, using the two specialized and well established languages Matlab and SDL. For this we provide a modeling techn...
In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. ...
This chapter addresses the problem of producing and maintaining progress in agent design. New architectures often hold important insights into the problems of designing intelligenc...
We present a formal framework for representing enterprise knowledge. The concepts of our framework (objectives and goals, roles and actors, actions and processes, responsibilities ...