Computational agents based on the BDI framework typically rely on abstract plans and plan refinement to reach a degree of autonomy in dynamic environments, agents are provided with the ability to select how-to achieve their goals by choosing from a …
Applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) may use, beyond the IoT devices themselves, also edge and cloud resources. Thus, the modules of an application can be placed on a variety of nodes with different capabilities in terms of security, …
Normative positions are sometimes illustrated in diagrams, in particular in didactic contexts. Traditional examples are the Aristotelian polygons of opposition for deontic modalities (squares, triangles, hexagons, etc.), and the Hohfeldian squares …
Testing undeniably plays a central role in the daily practice of software engineering, and this explains why better and more efficient libraries and services are continuously made available to developers and designers. Could the MAS developers …
Exploratory programming is a form of incremental program development in which the programmer can try and compare definitions, receives immediate feedback and can simultaneously experiment with the language, the program and input data. …