In this work, we extend the architecture of agents (and robots) based upon fixed, one-size-fits-all cycles of operation, by providing a framework of declarative specification of ag...
Antonis C. Kakas, Paolo Mancarella, Fariba Sadri, ...
Scheduling of multiple parallel machinesin the face of sequence dependent setups and downstream considerations is a hard problem. No single efficient algorithm is guaranteedto pro...
One specific problem in wide-area distributed computing environment is effective management of the vast amount of resources that are made available within the grid environment. Th...
Ghazala Shaheen, Muhammad Usman Malik, Zohair Ihsa...
Service discovery and matchmaking in a distributed environment has been an active research issue since at least the mid 1990s. Previous work on matchmaking has typically presented...
Simone A. Ludwig, Omer F. Rana, William Naylor, Ju...
—Time and uncertainty of the environment are very important aspects in the development of real world applications. Another important issue for the real world agents is, the balan...