Layered architectures are a proven principle for the design of software systems and components. The paper introduces a layered reference architecture for software agents which assi...
This paper proposes an improved free-roaming mobile agent security protocol. The scheme uses "one hop backwards and two hops forwards" chain relation as the protocol cor...
Darren Xu, Lein Harn, Mayur Narasimhan, Junzhou Lu...
Recently we have proposed a novel approach to utilizing agent teams as resource brokers and managers in the Grid. Thus far we have presented an overview of the proposed approach d...
We present the Hermes approach for goal-oriented interaction which includes a methodology for designing goal-based interactions and a process for mapping design artefacts to an ex...
Prometheus is an agent-oriented software engineering methodology. The Prometheus Design Tool (PDT) is a software tool that supports a designer who is using the Prometheus methodol...