Real-time applications typically have to satisfy high dependability requirements and require fault tolerance in both value and time domains. A widely used approach to ensure fault...
Web services have greatly leveraged the world of Business-to-Business (B2B) communication and promise a lot more through dynamic service composition. In order to compose Web servi...
High assurance in embedded system software is difficult to attain. Verification relies on testing. The unreliable and costly testing process is made much worse because the softwar...
In this paper, we address the problem of building a system of autonomous agents for a complex environment, in our case, a museum with many visitors. Visitors may have varying pref...
Andrew S. Cantino, David L. Roberts, Charles L. Is...
We investigate a framework where agents search for satisfying products by using referrals from other agents. Our model of a mechanism for transmitting word-of-mouth and the result...