Abstract. The integration of COTS components into a system under development entails architectural mismatches. These have been tackled, so far, at the component level, through comp...
Social and intentional behaviours appear as two main components of the agent paradigm. Methods of conventional software engineering do not seem to be appropriate to gain a full kno...
Querying and searching the Web is an important research field which has drawn a number of concepts from databases and information retrieval fields, but has added its own models, ...
Requirements capture by scenarios and user interface prototyping have become popular techniques. Yet, the transition from scenarios to formal specifications is still ill-defined, ...
The Management of Distributed Applications and Systems (MANDAS) project addresses problems arising in the management of distributed applications. Specifically, we are studying the...