This paper introduces a proposal on developing a service oriented modelling and simulation architecture related to intelligent building management based on an existing open platform that is intended to allow different people to participate and contribute at developing a intelligent building management service ecosystem. In this way, both users and developers can compose new services, while the ...

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) are increasingly popular in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to solve complex problems. They can be conceived flexible and able to adapt to different situations. However, these features are often compromised by the characteristics of the problem itself. On the other hand, MAS have not had a lot of success in the industry, probably due to a different development culture. To...

With the advent of aspect-oriented programming, the need for adequate techniques for handling aspect-oriented artifacts in the early phases of the software engineering process has emerged. In this paper, we present an aspect-oriented language extension for an integrated modeling language based on object models. We present the way aspect constructs can be handled in requirements and architectura...

In elderly care the shortage of available financial and human resources for coping with an increasing number of elderly people becomes critical. Current solutions to this problem focus on efficiency gains through the usage of information systems and include homecare services provided by IT systems. However, the current IT systems that integrate homecare services have difficulties in handling th...

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is becoming the dominant approach for developing and organizing distributed enterprise-wide applications. Although the concepts of SOA have been extensively described in the literature and industry, the effects of adopting SOA on software quality are still unclear. The aim of the paper is to analyze how adopting SOA can affect software quality as opposed to t...

Agent-oriented techniques represent an exciting new means of analysing, designing and building complex software systems. They have the potential to significantly improve current practice in software engineering and to extend the range of applications that can feasibly be tackled. Yet, to date, there have been few serious attempts to cast agent systems as a software engineering paradigm. This pa...

Adaptivity in web applications raises several concerns. One demands it to be decoupled from the actual application and at the same time wants to use very domain-specific terms for dividing the audience into groups. Two current trends, aspect-oriented programming and semantic web technologies, fit these requirements like a glove. In this paper, we present the AMACONT web modeling framework and u...

The integration of research in the area of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) with current methodologies and tools of Business Processes Management Systems (BPMS) will bring significant contributions to the objectives of dynamic process management in modern enterprises. However, at the current state of development of both BPMS and SOA, this dynamism is limited by numerous factors. This articl...

In Service-Oriented Computing (SOC) environments, service clients interact with service providers for consuming services. From the viewpoint of service clients, the trust level of a service or a service provider is a critical factor to consider in service selection, particularly when a client is looking for a service from a large set of services or service providers. However, a invoked service ...

Service selection has been widely investigated as an effective adaptation mechanism that allows a service broker, offering a composite service, to bind each task of the abstract composition to a corresponding implementation, selecting it from a set of candidates. The selection aims typically to fulfill the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of the composite service, considering several QoS p...