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Software is omnipresent within all factors of society. It is thus important to ensure that software are well tested to mitigate bad user experiences as well as the potential for severe financial and human losses. Software testing is however…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Jason Wang , Basem Suleiman , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

A multi-agent AI system (MAS) is composed of multiple autonomous agents that interact, exchange information, and make decisions based on internal generative models. Recent advances in large language models and tool-using agents have made…

Developing distributed systems presents significant challenges, primarily due to the complexity introduced by non-deterministic concurrency and faults. To address these, we propose a specification-driven development framework. Our method…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Hua Guo , Yunhong Ji , Xuan Zhou

Managing large-scale software products is a complex software engineering task. The automation of the software development, release and distribution process is most beneficial in the large collaborations, where the big number of developers,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2008-11-26 N. Ratnikova

Context. Multiple automated techniques have been proposed and developed for mobile application GUI testing aiming to improve effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality. The effectiveness, efficiency, and practicality are 3 fundamental…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Yauhen Leanidavich Arnatovich , Lipo Wang

In this paper, we deal with risk evaluation and risk-averse optimization of complex distributed systems with general risk functionals. We postulate a novel set of axioms for the functionals evaluating the total risk of the system. We derive…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Aray Almen , Darinka Dentcheva

Effort estimation is a crucial activity in agile software development, where teams collaboratively review, discuss, and estimate the effort required to complete user stories in a product backlog. Current practices in agile effort estimation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Thanh-Long Bui , Hoa Khanh Dam , Rashina Hoda

In this paper we represent a new framework for integrated distributed and reliable systems. In the proposed framework we have used three parts to increase Satisfaction and Performance of this framework. At first we analyze previous…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Mehdi Zekriyapanah Gashti

In recommender systems, online A/B testing is a crucial method for evaluating the performance of different models. However, conducting online A/B testing often presents significant challenges, including substantial economic costs, user…

The diversity of agent behaviors is an important topic for the quality of video games and virtual environments in general. Offering the most compelling experience for users with different skills is a difficult task, and usually needs…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Ciprian Paduraru , Miruna Paduraru

This paper addresses the problem of distributed detection in multi-agent networks. Agents receive private signals about an unknown state of the world. The underlying state is globally identifiable, yet informative signals may be dispersed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-10-01 Shahin Shahrampour , Alexander Rakhlin , Ali Jadbabaie

We consider a general problem where an agent is in a multi-agent environment and must plan for herself without any prior information about her opponents. At each moment, this pivotal agent is faced with a trade-off between exploiting her…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Fengming Zhu , Fangzhen Lin

Engineering software systems is a multidisciplinary activity, whereby a number of artifacts must be created - and maintained - synchronously. In this paper we investigate whether production code and the accompanying tests co-evolve by…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2007-05-25 Andy Zaidman , Bart Van Rompaey , Serge Demeyer , Arie van Deursen

One of the main challenges that developers face when testing their systems lies in engineering test cases that are good enough to reveal bugs. And while our body of knowledge on software testing and automated test case generation is already…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Maurício Aniche , Christoph Treude , Andy Zaidman

Multiagent systems aim to accomplish highly complex learning tasks through decentralised consensus seeking dynamics and their use has garnered a great deal of attention in the signal processing and computational intelligence societies. This…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-09-20 Sayed Pouria Talebi , Danilo Mandic

Penetration testing (or pentesting) is one of the widely used and important methodologies to assess the security of computer systems and networks. Traditional pentesting relies on the domain expert knowledge and requires considerable human…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-21 Ge Chu , Alexei Lisitsa

This paper explores multi-agent systems and identify challenges that remain inadequately addressed. By leveraging the diverse capabilities and roles of individual agents, multi-agent systems can tackle complex tasks through agent…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Shanshan Han , Qifan Zhang , Weizhao Jin , Zhaozhuo Xu

Large Language Model-based multi-agent systems have shown promise in automating software development tasks. However, most vibe code systems focus on completing small tasks and incremental code changes, leaving persistent, continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Wenhan Lyu , Yue Xiao , Yixuan Zhang , Yifan Sun

Systems integration is a difficult matter particularly when its components are varied. The problem becomes even more difficult when such components are heterogeneous such as humans, robots and software systems. Currently, the humans are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ammar Lahlouhi

Distributed system as e.g. artificial immune systems, complex adaptive systems, or multi-agent systems are widely used in Computer Science, e.g. for network security, optimisations, or simulations. In these systems, small entities move…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2008-05-14 Michael Hilker