Middleware facilitates the development of distributed systems by accommodating heterogeneity, hiding distribution details and providing a set of common and domain specific service...
Agent orientation is currently pursued primarily as a software paradigm. Software with characteristics such as autonomy, sociality, reactivity and proactivity, and communicative an...
The growing size and complexity of systems has revealed many shortcomings of existing software engineering practices, for example, lack of scalability. This in turn raised interes...
Prior research in software environments focused on three important problems-- tool integration, artifact management, and process guidance. The context for that research, and hence...
Within the eEurope2010 initiative “An Information Society for All”, development methods which enable the inclusion of the end-user become essential in order to ensure the parad...