Abstract. Software agent technology has attracted much attention for developing various distributed systems, composed of autonomous agents interacting with one another using partic...
The society in which we live today is increasingly a knowledge society. Organizations are turning more and more to knowledge creation and management for the development of their c...
—Autonomic computing is a paradigm that aims at reducing administrative overhead by providing autonomic managers to make applications self-managing. In order to better deal with ...
Ahmad Al-Shishtawy, Vladimir Vlassov, Per Brand, S...
Truly ubiquitous computing poses new and significant challenges. A huge number of heterogeneous devices will interact to perform complex distributed tasks. One of the key aspects...
Nicola Bicocchi, Marco Mamei, Andrea Prati, Rita C...
As Internet applications become larger and more complex, the task of managing them becomes overwhelming. “Abnormal” events such as software updates, failures, attacks, and hots...
Peter Van Roy, Seif Haridi, Alexander Reinefeld, J...