One of the most appealing features of multiagent technology is its natural way to modularise a complex system in terms of multiple, interacting and autonomous components. As a natu...
The Automated Production Systems (APS) are composed of concurrent interacting entities. Then any model should exhibit parallel and sequential behaviours. The Grafcet is now well e...
Intelligence, collaboration and mobility are the main important features in designing agents for electronic commercial systems. But very few systems permit to implement agents whi...
Feature trees have been used to accommodate records in constraint programming and record like structures in computational linguistics. Feature trees model records, and feature cons...
While software architecture has become an increasingly important research topic in recent years, insufficient attention has been paid to methods for evaluation of these architectu...
Rick Kazman, Leonard J. Bass, Mike Webb, Gregory D...