Systems using Software Agents (or Multi-Agent Systems, MAS) are becoming more popular within the development mainstream because, as the name suggests, an Agent aims to handle task...
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Access control in decentralised collaborative systems present huge challenges especially where many autonomous entities including organisations, humans, software agents from diff...
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Programmers commonly reuse existing frameworks or libraries to reduce software development efforts. One common problem in reusing the existing frameworks or libraries is that the...
Monitoring the satisfaction of software requirements and diagnosing what went wrong in case of failure is a hard problem that has received little attention in the Software and Req...
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: After over a decade of use, design patterns continue to find new areas of application. In previous work, we presented a contract formalism for specifying patterns precisely, and...
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