“Smart Things” are commonly understood as wireless ad-hoc networked, mobile, autonomous, special purpose computing appliances, usually interacting with their environment impli...
With the emergence of modularized componentbased electronic services, such as Web Services and semantically tagged services, Individual Service Provisioning, wherein any user can ...
Agent-based application development must face the issues related to the interactions among agents. In fact, their sociality allows decomposing large applications into collaboratin...
This article introduces the concept of combining both form (CAD models) and behavior (simulation models) of mechatronic system components into component objects. By composing thes...
Rajarishi Sinha, Christiaan J. J. Paredis, Pradeep...
One of the most robust findings in the sociological literature is the positive effect of communication on cooperation and trust. When individuals are able to communicate, cooperat...
Carlos Jensen, Shelly Farnham, Steven M. Drucker, ...