The advent of multi-agent systems has brought together many disciplines and given us a new way to look at intelligent, distributed systems. However, traditional ways of thinking about and designing software do not fit the multiagent paradigm. Based on agent theory, technology research and multi-agent environment, this paper describes agent oriented programming software development method – MaSE...

A computer program capable of acting intelligently in the world must have a general representation of the world in terms of which its inputs are interpreted. Designing such a program requires commitments about what knowledge is and how it is obtained. Thus, some of the major traditional problems of philosophy arise in arti cial intelligence. More speci cally, we want a computer program that dec...

In this paper, we share the experience gathered in designing and implementing a software factory for healthcare systems based on Health Level Seven standard. We discuss the long term vision and the scoped down proof of concept developed so far. We also outline the challenges encountered in our project and the opportunities to widen the scope of the approach to different industries and, more in ...

Designing system software currently optimizes program code for correctness and speed. While this is essential for the reliable operation of computer systems, these two characteristics alone are often not sufficient. Moreover, it is important to ensure that a third characteristic is being considered during the process of designing system software: energy efficiency. As optimizing program code fo...

Software architecture plays a pivotal role in allowing an organization to meet its business goals, in terms of the early insights it provides into the system, the communication it enables among stakeholders, and the value it provides as a re-usable asset. Unfortunately, designing and analyzing architecture for a certain system is recognized as a hard task for most software engineers, because th...

The control system designing of Unmanned Wave Glider (UWG) is challenging since the control system is weak maneuvering, large time-lag and large disturbance, which is difficult to establish accurate mathematical model. Meanwhile, to complete marine environment monitoring in long time scale and large spatial scale autonomously, UWG asks high requirements of intelligence and reliability. This pap...