In this paper, we present, through simulations of the coffee market of the state of Veracruz, how emergence of specialized roles in participatory simulations could be used to desi...
Abstract— Traditionally Interest Management (IM) in distributed environments has been performed through a ‘top-down’ expression of interest patterns in the model. For many mo...
— This work considers the problem of hosting multiple third-party Internet services in a cost-effective manner so as to maximize a provider’s business objective. For this purpo...
Bruno D. Abrahao, Virgilio Almeida, Jussara M. Alm...
— We present a decentralized, scalable approach to assembling a group of heterogeneous parts into different products using a swarm of robots. While the assembly plans are predete...
: Advanced business processes are mostly distributed and require highly flexible management capabilities. In such scenarios, process parts often leave their initiator’s direct sp...