Background: Software Development Process is a human-centered activity. This fact
highlights the impact of human factors on the development process and performance from …

We understand a sociotechnical system as a multistakeholder cyber-physical system. We
introduce governance as the administration of such a system by the stakeholders …

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

This article describes how the Internet of Things (IoT) and its smart objects will be the
fundamental building blocks for the creation of smart pervasive systems. Precision …

We present a novel approach to interaction-oriented programming based on declaratively
representing communication protocols. Our approach exhibits the following distinguishing …

Multiagent social commitments provide a principled basis for agent interactions, and serve
as a natural tool to resolve design ambiguities. Indeed, they have been the subject of …

Cross-organizational business processes are routine in today's economy. Of necessity,
enterprises conduct their business in cooperation to create products and services for the …

Business process modeling continues to increase in complexity, due, in part, to the dynamic
business contexts and complicated domain concepts found in today's global economic …

Computing is increasingly ubiquitous, with everyday items including smartphones, cars,
clothes and household appliances gaining increasingly sophisticated computing and …

The rapid integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) with ad hoc networks offers significant
advantages for revolutionizing smart environments. However, ensuring trust and reliability …