In recent years, agent-based systems have received considerable attention in both academics and industry. The agent-oriented paradigm can be considered a natural extension to the ...
We propose a formal definition of a pervasive service model targeting the very dynamic environments typical of mobile application scenarios. The model is based on a requirement an...
Developing large scale software systems has major security challenges. This paper describes the issues involved and then addresses two topics: formal methods for emerging secure sy...
Requirement analysis continues to be one of the most critical and challenging phases during the software development process. Many object-oriented methodologies identify three pri...
Peter J. Clarke, Yingbo Wang, Tuan L. Cameron, Yal...
Development of distributed systems is a difficult task. Declarative programming techniques hold a promising potential for effectively supporting programmer in this challenge. Whil...
Nuno P. Lopes, Juan A. Navarro, Andrey Rybalchenko...