This paper describes the design and implementation of NAOS, an active rule component in the object-oriented database system 02. The contribution of this work is related to two mai...
Debugging multi-agent systems, which are concurrent, distributed, and consist of complex components, is difficult, yet crucial. In earlier work we have proposed mechanisms whereby...
Increased reuse of software components has led to a software mishmash as existing packages are used as building blocks for new systems. Current debuggers cannot cope with the intr...
Traditional knowledge representations were developed to encode complete, explicit and executable programs, a goal that makes them less than ideal for representing the incomplete an...
Data flow process networks are a good model of computation for streaming multimedia applications incorporating audio, video and/or graphics streams. Process networks are concurre...