The evolution of software systems over many years often leads to unnecessarily complex and in exible designs which in turn lead to a huge amount of e ort for enhancements and main...
: A Peer-to-peer Data Network (PDN) is an open and evolving society of peer nodes that assemble into a network to share their data for mutual benefit. PDNs are enabled by distribu...
There are many problems requiring a semantic account of a database schema. At its best, such an account consists of mapping formulas between the schema and a formal conceptual mode...
009), which constitutes an abstraction of the various aspects of a MAS, generalizing the AGR approach and incorporating the institutional work of Searle (Searle 1995). This model i...
Currently there is a diversity of tools for agent-based simulation, which can be applied to the understanding of social phenomena. Describing this kind of phenomena with a visual l...