A great deal of work on software maintenance focuses on source code analysis and manipulation. Code is viewed as a static entity that is – more or less – separated from the sy...
This contribution presents a knowledge-based model of the agents’ mutual awareness (social knowledge) and justifies its role in various classes of applications of the concept of...
One vision of the “Semantic Web” of the future is that software agents will interact with each other using formal metadata that reveal their interfaces. We examine one plausibl...
Drew V. McDermott, Mark H. Burstein, Douglas R. Sm...
Program understanding is central to the development of distributed computations, from the initial coding phase, through testing and debugging, to maintenance and support. Our goal...
With the proliferation of the World Wide Web, it has become very important to provide advanced tools for maintaining referential integrity of information resources. The growing te...