The construction of smart grid relies on the development of many new software systems, whereas it would be very expensive and time-consuming if these new software systems are completely developed anew. Since the existence of many legacy software systems in the former power grid, the problem may be solved well supposing that those legacy software systems are reused reasonably and efficiently in ...

This Thematic Issue focuses on software engineering perspectives on the design, the use and the evaluation of Smart Applications for Ambient Intelligence. It congregates works showing the latest advancements in simulated smart environments as well as successful deployments in the real world, with contributions from revised and extended papers from the ISAmI’11 (International Symposium on Ambien...

Successful software development projects depend, among other things, on their project manager’s leadership capabilities. This paper analyzes how specific leadership styles of IT project managers contributed to the success of a large IT project realized by an IT service provider in India. We conducted an interpretive case study following the principles of the Grounded Theory Methodology to explo...

International competition and varying customer needs commonly cause small and medium furniture manufacturing enterprises to join dynamically-formed, ‘smart’ enterprise networks, established and operating using digital information technologies. In this paper, we propose a technological approach to support such enterprise networks which is primarily based on the use of software agents. First we o...

Smart grid is a combination of power, communication and information infrastructures which support the evolution of conventional electrical power systems toward active, flexible and automatic troubleshooter energy networks. This study presents a novel architectural model based on holonic multi-agent system to establish powerful connection model for software entities in IT infrastructure of smart...

Developing and maintaining complex, large-scale, product line of highly customized software systems is difficult and costly. Part of the difficulty is due to the need to communicate business knowledge between domain experts and application programmers. Domain specific model driven development (MDD) addresses this difficulty by providing domain experts and developers with domain specific abstrac...