This paper discusses semantic interoperability issues in agentbased E-commerce systems. The literature reports various techniques to enable agents to understand the meanings of th...
a useful abstract representation is fundamental to solving many difficult problems in software engineering. In order to better understand how representations are actually used in ...
To understand the evolution of software researchers have developed a plethora of tools to parse, model, and analyze the history of systems. Despite their usefulness, a common down...
Within a large, object-oriented software system it is common to partition the classes into a set of packages, which implicitly serve as a set of coarsely-grained logical design un...
Making decisions with an, often significant, element of risk seems to be an integral part of many of the projects of the diverse profession of engineering. Whether it be decisions...