This paper presents experience with explicitly managing variability within a software architecture. Software architects normally plan for change and put mechanisms in the architec...
Few existing approaches towards architectural evolution deal with unanticipated evolution. This is an important restriction, since a lot of architectural changes are very di cult ...
The agent view provides maybe the right level of abstraction for dealing with complex, distribblem-solving systems. It abstracts from aspects like the hardware or software platfor...
The increasing complexity of clinical trials has generated an enormous requirement for knowledge and information specification at all stages of the trials, including planning, doc...
Ravi D. Shankar, Susana B. Martins, Martin J. O'Co...
In multi-agent system literature, the role concept is getting ngly researched to provide an abstraction to scope beliefs, norms, goals of agents and to shape relationships of the a...