An overview of Manifold and its implementation
Concurrency: Practice and Experience
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
A structured approach for the definition of the semantics of active databases
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Using design patterns to develop reusable object-oriented communication software
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on object-oriented experiences and future trends
A practical approach to static analysis and execution of rules in active databases
CIKM '97 Proceedings of the sixth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Microsoft.com: a high-scale data management and transaction processing solution
SIGMOD '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The Starburst Active Database Rule System
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Exploiting UML in the Design of Multi-agent Systems
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Combining Software Components and Mobile Agents
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Context-Dependency in Internet-Agent Coordination
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Formal Specification and Prototyping of Multi-agent Systems
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Composite Events for Active Databases: Semantics, Contexts and Detection
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
IBM Systems Journal
ESAW '00 Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agent World: Revised Papers
Controlled experimentation with agents: models and implementations
ESAW'04 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Engineering Societies in the Agents World
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While agents have emphasised the notion of active software components, they are not likely to be the only active components in agent-based systems. In this paper, we first discuss the general notion of active system, and show how it relates with the issue of the consistent observation of distributed and heterogeneous multi-component systems. Then, we introduce the concept of boundary interface as a methodological abstraction for the engineering of a society's environment composed by active systems, allowing observer agents to be provided with three different kinds of consistent environment views, featuring observable, controlled, and constrained consistency, respectively.