In this paper, we explore the market-based grid resource trading system from the social perspective and the collaborative computing perspective. We firstly introduce a novel fram...
In this paper we develop a methodology for treating the problem of scheduling partially-ordered tasks on parallel machines. Our framework is based on the timed automaton model, or...
In this paper we present practical experiences gathered from the employment of two popular Java-based mobile-agent platforms, IBM's Aglets and Mitsubishi's Concordia. We...
George Samaras, Marios D. Dikaiakos, Constantinos ...
Effectively assisting people in complex and highly dynamic work environment requires advances in high-level declarative activity models that can describe the flow of human work act...
This paper presents an argumentation based framework to support the decision making of an agent within a modular architecture for agents. The proposed argumentation framework is d...