Multi-agent Systems Product Lines (MAS-PLs) have emerged to integrate two promising trends of software engineering: agent-oriented software engineering and software product lines. In this paper, we propose a domain engineering process to develop MAS-PLs, built on top of agent-oriented and software product line approaches.

Proposed object-oriented approaches are still in an initial stage of investigation and are not powerfull enough to modelling Computer-Aided-Design (CAD) applications which manipulate ill-deened, evolving and multifaceted objects. In this paper, we argue in favour of a model, called CEDAR, which aims at easing the modelling process by endowing the object-oriented approach with a viewpoint notion.

This demo paper presents an interactive tabletop interface with tangible building blocks to engage business domain experts in process modelling. This interface, called Metasonic Touch, is a commercial product based on results of the European research project IANES (Interactive Acquisition, Negotiation and Enactment of Subject-Oriented Business Process Knowledge). BPM conference attendees will b...

Particles labelled 1 · · · n are arranged initially in increasing order. Subsequently, each pair of neighbouring particles that is currently in increasing order swaps according to a Poisson process of rate 1. We analyze the asymptotic behaviour of this process as n → ∞. We prove that the space-time trajectories of individual particles converge (when suitably scaled) to a certain family of rando...

We propose decision-oriented process modelling as a step towards human-centered process management, and demonstrate some implications of this model for the interaction between process modelling, process enactment, and process performance in a CASE environment. We also discuss the potential our approach offers for experiencebased process improvement.

Distributing process-oriented programs across a cluster of machines requires careful attention to the effects of network latency. The MPI standard, widely used for cluster computation, defines a number of collective operations: efficient, reusable algorithms for performing operations among a group of machines in the cluster. In this paper, we describe our techniques for implementing MPI communi...