: Today software systems have to face frequent requests for change during their whole lifetime. It is very important that they can adapt to the frequently changing needs and are fl...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe a novel agent architecture for normative multiagent systems which is based on multi-context systems. It models the three modalities of Rao and ...
Database technology is one of the cornerstones for the new millennium's IT landscape. However, database systems as a unit of code packaging and deployment are at a crossroad:...
Evolution is a permanent challenge in product line engineering. Reusable assets such as software components or documents evolve continuously due to new customer requirements or te...
Automatically determining the situation of an ad-hoc group of people and devices within a smart environment is a significant challenge in pervasive computing systems. Current appro...