Abstract Recent progress in mobile broadband communication and semantic web technology is enabling innovative internet services that provide advanced personalization and localizati...
The implementation of software systems with large numbers of heterogeneous components calls for a powerful design methodology. Although several such methodologies have been propos...
Ontologies play a key role in agent communication and the emerging Semantic Web to define a vocabulary of concepts and their relationships. Different agents and web services may us...
Simple Temporal Networks (STNs) are frequently used in scheduling applications, as they provide a powerful and general tool for managing temporal constraints. One obstacle to thei...
Interaction protocols enable agents to communicate with each other effectively. Whereas several approaches exist to specify interaction protocols, none of them has design tools th...