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The Agent Conversation Reasoning Engine (ACRE) is intended to aid agent developers to improve the management and reliability of agent communication. To evaluate its effectiveness, a problem scenario was created that could be used to compare…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2014-10-13 David Lillis , Rem W. Collier , Howell R. Jordan

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly introduced into systems engineering activities, particularly within requirements engineering, where quality assessment and validation remain heavily dependent on expert judgment. While recent AI tools…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Oz Levy , Ilya Dikman , Natan Levy , Michael Winokur

Context: Requirements Engineering for AI-based systems (RE4AI) presents unique challenges due to the inherent volatility and complexity of AI technologies, necessitating the development of specialized methodologies. It is crucial to prepare…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Beatriz Batista , Márcia Lima , Tayana Conte

Aircraft conflict resolution is one of the major tasks of computer-aided air traffic management and represents a challenging optimization problem. Many models and methods have been proposed to assist trajectory regulation to avoid…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Mercedes Pelegrin , Martina Cerulli

Merge conflicts often arise when developers integrate changes from different software branches. The conflicts can result from overlapping edits in programs (i.e., textual conflicts) or cause build and test errors (i.e., build and test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Sheikh Shadab Towqir , Fei He , Todd Mytkowicz , Na Meng

Existing neural combinatorial optimization solvers frame solution search as imitation of optimal decisions, inherently limiting their utility to single-objective minimization and static constraints. We propose GOAL, a conditioned diffusion…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Xingyu Li

Algorithm configuration (AC) is concerned with the automated search of the most suitable parameter configuration of a parametrized algorithm. There is currently a wide variety of AC problem variants and methods proposed in the literature.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Elias Schede , Jasmin Brandt , Alexander Tornede , Marcel Wever , Viktor Bengs , Eyke Hüllermeier , Kevin Tierney

Requirements engineering (RE) is critical to software success, yet automating it remains challenging because multiple, often conflicting quality attributes must be balanced while preserving stakeholder intent. Existing Large-Language-Model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Haowei Cheng , Milhan Kim , Foutse Khomh , Teeradaj Racharak , Nobukazu Yoshioka , Naoyasu Ubayashi , Hironori Washizaki

Resolving conflicts from merging different software versions is a challenging task. To reduce the overhead of manual merging, researchers develop various program analysis-based tools which only solve specific types of conflicts and have a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Qingyu Zhang , Liangcai Su , Kai Ye , Chenxiong Qian

Large language models have been successfully applied to programming assistance tasks, such as code completion, code insertion, and instructional code editing. However, these applications remain insufficiently automated and struggle to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hao Jiang , Qi Liu , Rui Li , Shengyu Ye , Shijin Wang

User experience of mobile apps is an essential ingredient that can influence the audience volumes and app revenue. To ensure good user experience and assist app development, several prior studies resort to analysis of app reviews, a type of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Cuiyun Gao , Wenjie Zhou , Xin Xia , David Lo , Qi Xie , Michael R. Lyu

Multi-objective preference alignment in language models often encounters a challenging trade-off: optimizing for one human preference (e.g., helpfulness) frequently compromises others (e.g., harmlessness) due to the inherent conflicts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zhihao Xu , Yongqi Tong , Xin Zhang , Jun Zhou , Xiting Wang

Acceptance criteria (ACs) play a critical role in software development by clearly defining the conditions under which a software feature satisfies stakeholder expectations. However, manually creating accurate, comprehensive, and unambiguous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Fanyu Wang , Chetan Arora , Yonghui Liu , Kaicheng Huang , Chakkrit Tantithamthavorn , Aldeida Aleti , Dishan Sambathkumar , David Lo

With the advent of wide security platforms able to express simultaneously all the policies comprising an organization's global security policy, the problem of inconsistencies within security policies become harder and more relevant. We have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Carlos Ribeiro , Andre Zuquete , Paulo Ferreira , Paulo Guedes

During the first step of practical reasoning, i.e. deliberation, an intelligent agent generates a set of pursuable goals and then selects which of them he commits to achieve. An intelligent agent may in general generate multiple pursuable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Mariela Morveli-Espinoza , Juan Carlos Nieves , Ayslan Possebom , Josep Puyol-Gruart , Cesar Augusto Tacla

Often during the requirements engineering (RE) process, the value of a requirement is assessed, e.g., in requirement prioritisation, release planning, and trade-off analysis. In order to support these activities, this research evaluates…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Richard Ellis-Braithwaite

DO-178C stands out as a guiding standard for aviation system development processes. This standard not only mandates ensuring the consistency of requirements in the software verification process but also recognizes it as a mandatory element.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Simge Yatkın , Tolga Ovatman

[Context and motivation] When developing software, coordination between different organizational units is essential in order to develop a good quality product, on time and within budget. Particularly, the synchronization between…

Goal-models (GM) have been used in adaptive systems engineering for their ability to capture the different ways to fulfill the requirements. Contextual GM (CGM) extend these models with the notion of context and context-dependent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-03-25 Felipe Pontes Guimarães , Genaina Nunes Rodrigues , Raian Ali , Daniel Macêdo Batista

This paper presents a decentralized algorithm for a team of agents to track time-varying fixed points that are the solutions to time-varying convex optimization problems. The algorithm is first-order, and it allows for total asynchrony in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-10-14 Gabriel Behrendt , Matthew Hale