Reifying Design Patterns to Facilitate Systems Evolution
In the Web age systems must be increasingly flexible, reconfigurable and adaptable in addition to being developed rapidly. As...
Managing Configuration with Evolving Constraints in Design Databases
Artifacts in engineering design are structurally complex and may be represented in software as recursively composite objects. Due to...
Intentions of Operations – Characterization and Preservation
Frequent changes of software requirements imply changes of the underlying database, like database schema, integrity constraints, as well as...
Bringing Multi-agent Systems into Human Organizations: Application to a Multi-agent Information System
Agents are increasingly used to search for information on the Internet. However, they are principally used as single agents...
Automatic Generation of XML from Relations: The Nested Relation Approach
We propose a method to generate XML documents from relational databases by using nested relational algebra. Starting with a...
Reconciling Physical, Communicative, and Social/Institutional Domains in Agent Oriented Information Systems – A Unified...
One of a business system’s roles is to provide a representation of a Universe of Discourse, which reflects its...
An Agent-Based Active Portal Framework
The paper introduces an agent-based active portal framework. It aims to support the construction of active portals for various...
Agent-Oriented Modeling and Agent-Based Simulation
Agent-oriented modeling of software and information systems and agent-based simulation are commonly viewed as two separate fields with different...
REF: A Practical Agent-Based Requirement Engineering Framework
Requirements Engineering techniques, based on the fundamental notions of agency, i.e., Agent, Goal, and Intentional Dependency, have been recognized...
Patterns for Motivating an Agent-Based Approach
The advantages of the agent-based approach are still not widely recognized outside the agent research community. In this paper...
