Supporting cooperation in the SPADE-1 environment

Supporting Cooperation in the SPADE-1 Environment

Cooperation Support in the SPADE Environment: A Case Study

This paper describes the cooperation support facilities of SPADE, a process-centered development environment, i.e., an environment where software production activities are guided by the process speci cation. In SPADE, such speci cations are written in SLANG, a process modeling language based on high-level Petri nets. SLANG process descriptions can be executed by means of an interpreter that is ...

Supporting Cooperation through Clans

Cooperation is the foundation of multi-agent systems, and allows agents to interact to achieve complex goals. In dynamic environments cooperation gives rise to inherent uncertainty since we cannot predict how agents will respond to environmental change. Consequently, agents must have some mechanism for coping with this uncertainty. In particular, agents must manage the risk resulting from inter...

The Architecture of the SPADE - 1 Process - Centered SEE ?

SPADE is a project carried out at CEFRIEL and Politecnico di Milano. It aims at deening a process modeling language (called SLANG) and a Process-centered Software Engineering Environment (PSEE) based on this language. PSEEs support software activities through the execution of the model of the software process. Such a model integrates the description of human activities and of the interaction be...

Adaptivity in a System Supporting Cooperation*

* To appear in the proceeding of the Fourth International Conference on User Modeling Cape Code, USA August 1994 Abstract1 People cooperating in a group often find it difficult to reconstruct the context most appropriate for different interactions with the other group members since their work domain is continuously evolving. The paper shows how a system mediating communication can provide its u...