An increasingly important trend in the engineering of complex systems is the design of component integration standards. Such standards de ne rules of interaction and shared commun...
Abstract. We present a method to test a group of agents for (unwanted) emergent behavior by using techniques from learning of cooperative behavior. The general idea is to mimick us...
Abstract. Similarly to institutions in human societies, Electronic Institutions (EI) provide structured frameworks for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) to regulate agents' interactio...
The notion of service enjoys increasing popularity as a means for structuring complex distributed systems. Most definitions of the term service, however, refer only to syntactic l...
Computer-aided analysis of four-dimensional tomography data has become an important tool in modern cardiology. In order to examine the capability and health of a patient’s cardi...