Increasingly, software engineering involves open systems consisting of autonomous and
heterogeneous participants or agents who carry out loosely coupled interactions …

The Art and Science of Analyzing Software Data provides valuable information on analysis
techniques often used to derive insight from software data. This book shares best practices …

Change is an essential characteristic of software development, as software systems must
respond to evolving requirements, platforms, and other environmental pressures. In this …

Personal assistant agents capable of proactively offering assistance can be more helpful to
their users through their ability to perform tasks that otherwise would require user …

To achieve system-level properties of a multiagent system, the behavior of individual agents
should be controlled and coordinated. One way to control agents without limiting their …

Agent interaction is a fundamental part of any multiagent system. Such interactions are
usually regulated by protocols, which are typically defined at design-time. However, in many …

We address the challenge of adaptation in open systems. Open systems are characterized
by interactions among autonomous and heterogeneous participants. In such systems, each …

Whereas commitments capture how an agent relates with another agent,(private) goals
describe states of the world that an agent is motivated to bring about. Researchers have …

Commitments help model interactions in multiagent systems in a computationally realizable
yet high-level manner without compromising the autonomy and heterogeneity of the member …

Personal data have become a central asset for multiple enterprise applications and online
services offered by private companies, public organisations or a combination of both. The …