Distributed systems comprised of autonomous self-interested entities require some sort of control mechanism to ensure the predictability of the interactions that drive them. This ...
Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, ...
Multi-agent systems are well suited for building large software systems. A great deal of these complex systems includes process flows that are concerned with time or are even time...
Lars Braubach, Alexander Pokahr, Winfried Lamersdo...
Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) supports the transformation from reusable models to executable software. Business representations, however, cannot be fully and explicitly represen...
A supply chain is a set of organizations directly linked by flows of services from suppliers to customers. Supply chain activities range from the ordering and receipt of raw materi...
The dynamic nature of Service-Oriented Architectures challenges traditional systems management practices which tend to be static in nature. We propose a goal-oriented, agent-based...
Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Imad Abdallah, Jun L...