Abstract: Logistics processes in a globalised economy are increasingly complex, dynamic, and distributed. These properties pose major challenges for logistics planning and control....
Arne Schuldt, Karl Hribernik, Jan D. Gehrke, Klaus...
Stigmergy (the coordination of agents through signs they make and sense in a shared environment) was originally articulated in the study of social insects. Its basic processes are ...
Most real-world negotiation scenarios involve multiple, interdependent issues. These scenarios are specially challenging because the agents' utility functions are nonlinear, ...
—The support of distributed atomic transactions in mobile ad-hoc networks (MANET) is a key requirement for many mobile application scenarios. Atomicity is a fundamental property ...
Aglets is a mobile agent system that allows an agent to move with its code and execution state across the network to interact with other entities. Aglets utilizes Java RMI to supp...