The current software development environment has been changing into new development paradigms such as concurrent distributed development environment and the so-called open source p...
—An open issue in self-organisation is how to control the emergence of behaviour. This issue is also of interest for engineering holonic multi-agent systems as any level of a hol...
New component-based techniques are emerging, leading to new ways to develop software. Industrial component technologies such as COM, JavaBeans, EJB, or CCM are powerful but their ...
Abstract This paper is sort of a confession. Issues of synchrony, asynchrony, and synchronization, arise frequently in designing embedded systems from components, like everyone I k...
The military develops simulations to analyze nearly every aspect of defense. How accurate are these simulations and to what extent do they produce dependable results? Most guidanc...
Scott D. Simpkins, Eugene P. Paulo, Lyn R. Whitake...