Abstract. A Virtual Organisation (VO) is a temporary alliance of autonomous, diverse, and geographically dispersed organisations, where the participants pool resources, information...
Integrating contributions received from other agents is an essential activity in multi-agent systems (MASs). Not only must related contributions be integrated together, but the co...
Abstract. The agent-oriented approach has been successfully applied to the solution of complex problems in dynamic open environments. However, to extend its use to mainstream compu...
Abstract. A tree representation distance method, applied to any dissimilarity array, always gives a valued tree, even if the tree model is not appropriate. In the first part, we pr...
Abstract. Autonomic computing is being advocated as a tool for managing large, complex computing systems. Specifically, self-organisation provides a suitable approach for developi...
Ramachandra Kota, Nicholas Gibbins, Nicholas R. Je...