This paper argues that modelling the development methodologies can improve the multi-agents systems software engineering. Such modelling allows applying methods, techniques and practices used in the software development to the methodologies themselves. The paper discusses then the advantages of the modelling of development methodologies. It describes a model of development methodologies, uses s...

The paper discusses a multi-stage stochastic programming approach to the strategic ®nancial management of a multi-company ®nancial conglomerate. The planning system creates a comprehensive strategy which simultaneously covers a number of future scenarios within a multi-period planning horizon. Multiple con ̄icting goals may be speci®ed for the group level, company level or individual business ar...

Impacts generated by natural hazards in the last years are growing also because many regions of the world become subject to multiple hazards and cascading effects. The modelling of the multi-hazard dimension is a new challenge that allows the stakeholder to face with the chain effects between hazards and to model the risk in a real holistic way. Despite the recognition of the importance of a mu...

Natural languages are known for their expressive richness. Many sentences can be used to represent the same underlying meaning. Only modelling the observed surface word sequence can result in poor context coverage and generalization, for example, when using n-gram language models (LMs). This paper proposes a novel form of language model, the paraphrastic LM, that addresses these issues. A phras...

Integrative genomics studies have greatly advanced our understanding of cardiovascular pathophysiology over the last decade. Here, we highlight the strengths and challenges of this cutting-edge approach and provide examples where novel insights have arisen through the integration of multi-level genomic information and cardiac physiology. Going forward, the integration of comprehensive next-gene...

Artifact systems are a novel paradigm for implementing service oriented computing. Business artifacts include both data and process descriptions at interface level thereby providing more sophisticated and powerful service inter-operation capabilities. In this paper we put forward a technique for the practical verification of business artifacts in the context of multi-agent systems. We extend GS...

The last decades have seen the emergence of truly complex, designed systems, known as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). Engineering such systems requires integrating physical, software, and network aspects. To date, neither a unifying theory nor systematic design methods, techniques and tools exist to meet this challenge. Individual engineering disciplines, such as mechanical, electrical, network a...

In this paper, we introduce a new model of the stock market. This model describes the behavioral and cognitive attitudes of the investor at the micro level and explains their effects on his decision making. A multi-agent based simulation is used to validate our model and to study the emergence of certain stock market phenomena at the macro level. The modelling and implementation details of our ...