Abstract. In a Connected Society, the importance of database privacy and security increases considerably. Security must be considered as a fundamental requirement in Information Sy...
Abstract. Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) architectures are gaining popularity over traditional ones for building open, distributed or evolving software. To formally define system archit...
The development of mobile communication technology and ubiquitous computing paradigm and the emergence of m-healthcare, m-business and m-education services have raised the urgency ...
Today’s software operate in a dynamic, organizational context and hence, it needs flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve con...
Jaelson Castro, Carla T. L. L. Silva, John Mylopou...
Our group is involved in the European funded Webocracy project in which an e-government system called Webocrat has been designed and implemented. Our responsibility is to provide m...
This paper presents a requirements engineering framework based on the notions of Actor, Goal, and Intentional Dependency, and applies it to a case study in the field of Informatio...
This paper seeks to analyze a CSCW (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) approach for supporting Communities of Practice; mainly we focus on discussing how awareness plays a centra...