This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
This paper presents joint work by the California Institute of Technology’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of California at Davis (UC Davis) sponsored by the Nation...
Application integration is a major trend in information technology today. In this paper we present a number of principles for the design, validation and presentation of process mod...
This paper describes a simulation technique for RealTime Hw/Sw systems based on an object executable model. It allows designers to seamlessly estimate and verify their solutions f...
Assigning tasks to agents is complex, especially in highly dynamic environments. Typical protocol-based approaches for task assignment such as Contract Net have proven their value...