The construction of a large class of distributed systems can be simplified by leveraging middleware, which is layered between network operating systems and application components....
Information System Engineering has become under increasing pressure to come up with software solutions that endow systems with the agility that is required to evolve in a continual...
There is little or no guidance to systematically design a self-organising emergent solution that achieves the desired macroscopic behaviour. This paper describes decentralised coor...
Internet-based multi-agent systems call for new metaphors, abstractions, methodologies and enabling technologies specifically tailored to agent-oriented engineering. While coordin...
The paper presents the implementation of a railway control system, as a means of assessing the potential of coordination languages to be used for modelling software architectures f...