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1995
Springer
14 years 13 days ago
Using non-functional requirements to systematically support change
Non-Functional requirements (or quality requirements, NFRs) such as confidentiality, performance and timeliness are often crucial to a software system. Our NFRFramework treats NF...
Lawrence Chung, Brian A. Nixon, Eric S. K. Yu
ATAL
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Altruism and agents: an argumentation based approach to designing agent decision mechanisms
We present an argument-based qualitative decision-making framework in which the social values promoted or demoted by alternative action-options are explicitly represented. We show...
Trevor J. M. Bench-Capon, Katie Atkinson, Peter Mc...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
OWL-P: OWL for protocol and processes
We describe OWL-P (OWL for Processes and Protocols), a methodology and software tool for specifying and enacting interaction protocols among autonomous agents. We use the Web Onto...
Ashok U. Mallya, Nirmit Desai, Amit K. Chopra, Mun...
GLOBECOM
2009
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
MAC Protocol Engine for Sensor Networks
—We present a novel approach for Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol design based on protocol engine. Current way of designing MAC protocols for a specific application is based...
Sinem Coleri Ergen, Piergiuseppe Di Marco, Carlo F...
CII
2006
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13 years 9 months ago
A layered approach to automated electrical safety analysis in automotive environments
Software support for the automotive electrical design process is vital, as many of the safety analysis tasks needing to be carried out, while complex, are repetitive and time cons...
C. J. Price, N. A. Snooke, S. D. Lewis