: The IS development industry is currently undergoing profound changes. The well established, large system developers (hubs) take the lead in establishing partner networks with muc...
Service oriented computing is an emerging paradigm for programming distributed applications based on services. Services are simple software elements that supply their functionalit...
During the past decade, object-orientation (OO) has become the dominant software development methodology, accompanied by a number of modeling notations, programming languages, and...
Internet-based multi-agent systems call for new metaphors, abstractions, methodologies and enabling technologies specifically tailored to agent-oriented engineering. While coordin...
Many reported difficulties with real-life applications of knowledge-based technology stem from the fact that the traditionally performed prototyping projects are hard to manage an...