A key property of agents is that they are social, and hence the design of agent interactions is a crucial part of an agentoriented software engineering methodology. Agent interact...
Today many people with serious diseases use online support groups to seek social support. For these groups to be sustained and effective, member retention and commitment is import...
This paper develops a model for exceptions and an approach for incorporating them in commitment protocols among autonomous agents. Modeling and handling exceptions is critical for...
Increases in peak current draw and reductions in the operating voltages of processors continue to amplify the importance of dealing with voltage fluctuations in processors. Noise-...
Meeta Sharma Gupta, Krishna K. Rangan, Michael D. ...
— In the globalisation spirit, one of the major objectives of companies is how to reduce the production losses cost-effectively for continuously enhancement of competitiveness an...
Basim Al-Najjar, Daniel Andersson, Martin Jacobsso...