In this paper, we propose a multi-agent approach for solving a class of optimization problems involving expensive resources, where monolithic local search schemes perform miserabl...
In online, dynamic environments, the services requested by consumers may not be readily served by the providers. This requires the service consumers and providers to negotiate the...
: Component-based software development has matured into standard practice in software engineering. Among the advantages of reusing software modules are lower costs, faster developm...
The growing number of web services advocates distributed discovery infrastructures which are semantics-enabled and support quality of service (QoS). In this paper, we introduce a n...
The vision of a common international education space includes a scenario for the composition of personalised study curricula consisting of modules offered by different universitie...
German Nemirovskij, Michael Thomas Egner, Eberhard...