In this paper we incorporate autonomous agents' capability to perform parallel interactions into the cooperative search model, resulting in a new method which outperforms the...
Service composition aims to provide an efficient and accurate model of a service, based on which the global service oriented architecture (SOA) can be realized, allowing value add...
Distributed group facilitation techniques are becoming a necessity because many of the face-toface facilitation techniques are no longer suitable in a distributed environment. Alt...
The work described in this paper presents an approach on scheduling in a virtual enterprise in the tourism sector. This scheduling scenario has to reconcile customers' and ser...
The management of natural resources is an intricate and consequential task. In particular, water management is at the forefront of public policy priorities in many countries becaus...