Information-rich environments are the open environments that characterize most of the modern applications of computing technology. The applications include ubiquitous information a...
Although there are some research efforts toward resource allocation in multi-agent systems (MAS), most of these work assume that each agent has complete information about other ag...
In this paper we consider the problem of target tracking in a network of mobile agents. We propose a scheme with agents that are endowed with processing and decision-making capabi...
We consider the problem of query plan optimization in information brokers. Information brokers are programs that facilitate access to collections of information sources by hiding ...
The paper describes some innovations related to the ongoing work on the GSA prototype, an integrated information retrieval agent. In order to improve the original system effective...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Ricca, Francesco C...