Multi-agent systems can be viewed as object-oriented systems in which their entities show an autonomous behavior. If objects could acquire such skill in a flexible way, agents coul...
When dealing with large, distributed systems that use state-of-the-art components, individual components are usually developed in parallel. As development continues, the decouplin...
Arno Hartholt, Thomas Russ, David R. Traum, Eduard...
Abstract. Protocols that govern the interactions between software components are a popular means to support the construction of correct component-based systems. Previous studies ha...
In modern architectures based on Web Services or Cloud Computing, a very large number of user requests arrive concurrently and has to be scheduled for execution constrained by cor...
UML class diagrams of complex software systems are frequently very large, making it difficult to gain a detailed understanding of the underlying software components within the con...