The ability to provide massive data storage, applications, platforms plus many other services
leads to make the number of clouds services providers been increased. Providing different …

In recent years the concept of emergence has captured significant attention in the field of
complex systems. However, the inability to predict and control emergent phenomena …

This paper presents a unique and practical study toward automating analysis and design of
software. In this work, we have automated generation of package diagrams in software …

Ontologies have been utilized in many different areas of software engineering. As software
systems grow in size and complexity, the need to devise methodologies to manage the …

Emergence has been studied in various fields, including engineering, computer science,
and economics. However, there is no agreed-upon definition of what emergence means. As …

Emergent behavior in distributed systems is a central problem that may lead to unexpected
behaviors and major faults. Emergent behaviors are usually categorized into three groups …

In design of distributed systems with specification languages such as message sequence
charts (MSC), communication between different component (agent) types or instances of …

Distributed applications are composed of multiple nodes, which exchange information with
individual nodes through message passing. Compared with traditional applications …

Requirement elicitation is one of the most challenging stages of the software development
lifecycle. Many bugs are introduced into the system as the result of incomplete or …

Abstract Verification of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) is vital since it results in reducing design
costs. Agent UML (AUML) is a methodology for MAS design that is an extension of Unified …