Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to ...
It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
Abstract. In this paper we propose a new role for the agent metaphor in the definition of the organizational structure of multiagent systems. The agent metaphor is extended to cons...
Abstract. In this paper, we show how the concepts of objects, components, features and agents are used today in the Agent Building Center (ABC) environment in order to marry the mo...
The systems biology community is building increasingly complex models and simulations of cells and other biological entities. This community is beginning to look at alternatives t...