—Formal methods provide remarkable tools allowing for high levels of confidence in the correctness of developments. Their use is therefore encouraged, when not required, for the...
This paper provides a formal foundation for distributed workfiow executions. The state chart formalism is adapted to the needs of a workflow model in order to establish a basis for...
As the amount of available ontologies and their size grow, ontology reuse gains in importance. However, the online available formalized knowledge in many cases need a revision whic...
Overhearing is gaining attention as a generic method for cooperative monitoring of distributed, open, multiagent systems. It involves monitoring the routine conversations of agent...
Abstract. The notion of agents has provided a way of imbuing traditional computing systems with an extra degree of flexibility that allows them to be more resilient and robust in t...