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SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Policy-Driven Configuration and Management of Agent Based Distributed Systems
In this paper, we demonstrate a policy based approach for building and managing large scale agent based systems. We identify different classes of policies for agent based componen...
Anand R. Tripathi, Devdatta Kulkarni, Tanvir Ahmed
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Product-Line Approach to Promote Asset Reuse in Multi-agent Systems
Software reuse technologies have been a driving force in significantly reducing both the time and cost of software specification, development, maintenance and evolution. However, t...
Josh Dehlinger, Robyn R. Lutz
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Engineering Organization-Based Multiagent Systems
In this paper, we examine the Multiagent Systems Engineering (MaSE) methodology and its applicability to developing organization-based multiagent systems, which are especially rele...
Scott A. DeLoach
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Characterization and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Architectural Styles
We argue that it is useful to study classes of Multi-Agent System (MAS) architectures, corresponding to architectural styles in addition to particular tures. In this work we focus ...
Paul Davidsson, Stefan J. Johansson, Mikael Svahnb...
SELMAS
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Improving Flexibility and Robustness in Agent Interactions: Extending Prometheus with Hermes
Abstract. A crucial part of multi-agent system design is the design of agent interactions. Traditional approaches to designing agent interaction use interaction protocols, which fo...
Christopher Cheong, Michael Winikoff
RISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Balancing Agility and Discipline with XPrince
Most of the contemporary projects require balance between agility and discipline. In the paper a software development and project management methodology called XPrince (eXtreme PRo...
Jerzy R. Nawrocki, Lukasz Olek, Michal Jasiñ...
RISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Formal Development of Reactive Fault Tolerant Systems
Usually complex systems are controlled by an operator co-operating with a computer-based controller. The controlling software runs in continuous interaction with the operator and c...
Linas Laibinis, Elena Troubitsyna
RISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Rapid System Development Via Product Line Architecture Implementation
Software Product Line (SPL) engineering allows designers to reason about an entire family of software applications, instead of a single product, with a strategic importance for the...
Mauro Caporuscio, Henry Muccini, Patrizio Pellicci...
RISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Can Aspects Implement Contracts?
Design by ContractTM is commonly cited as an example of the “crosscutting” concerns that aspect-oriented programming can address. We test this conjecture by attempting to imple...
Stephanie Balzer, Patrick Th. Eugster, Bertrand Me...
RISE
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Software Testing with Evolutionary Strategies
Abstract. This paper applies the Evolutionary Strategy (ES) metaheuristic to the automatic test data generation problem. The problem consists in creating automatically a set of inp...
Enrique Alba, J. Francisco Chicano