Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
In many systems, items of information have owners associated with them. An owner of an item of information may want the system to enforce a policy that restricts use of that infor...
In an evolving specification, considerable development time and effort is spent handling recurrent inconsistencies. Tools and techniques for detecting and resolving inconsistencie...
A workflow involves the coordinated execution of multiple operations and can be used to capture business processes. Typical workflow management systems are centralised and rigid; t...
Joey Sik Chun Lam, Frank Guerin, Wamberto Weber Va...
1 COTS (commercial off-the-shelf) devices are capable of executing powerful, distributed algorithms. Very large, adaptive systems can be created by simply integrating these devices...
Sanjai Narain, Ravichander Vaidyanathan, Stanley M...