Distributed applications involving mobile devices interconnected by wireless networks may benefit both from multiagent technology and context-aware programming techniques. We present a system running on a agent platform to allow access to services that ...

Automation of model-based testing for embedded systems is discussed. The focus is on feature and feature interruption test case generation and selection from behavioral specifications. For this, the LTS-BT tool is presented. The tool has been designed to ...

Nowadays, Function Point and Use Case Point metrics have been largely adopted in the software industry to measure the size of the development work of the project. Metrics should be used in conjunction with estimating techniques such as COCOMO. There has ...

In a system development, the knowledge of a target business is very important factor for the success of a development. The needed part of such knowledge is different for each stakeholder. Therefore, we need a method to measure the level of understanding ...

In this work we discuss author identification for documents written in Portuguese. Two different approaches were compared. The first is the writer-independent model which reduces the pattern recognition problem to a single model and two classes, hence, ...

Software Product Lines (SPLs) encompass a family of software systems developed from reusable assets. One issue during SPL development is the decision about which technique should be used to implement variabilities and improve the Separation of Concerns (...

In this article, we propose an original method for providing fault tolerance in multi-agent systems. Our method focuses on building an automatic and adaptive replication policy to solve the resource allocation problem of determining where agents must be ...