process: Designers must define higher abstraction levels that allow system modeling. They must use description languages that handle both hardware and software components to descri...
Visual representations are widely used to describe modern-day software systems, but, in most cases, they lack rigour. This paper addresses the problems of formality, rigour and co...
In this paper we propose a new two-level methodology for assessing countries’/companies’ economic/financial performance. The methodology is based on two major techniques of gr...
Abstract. We introduce an integrated approach to the conceptualisation, implementation and evaluation of a MAS (multi-agent system) which is based on sociological concepts of pract...
In order to detect violations of end-to-end service level agreements (SLA) and to isolate trouble links and nodes based on a unified framework, managers of a service provider net...