Cost-effective engineering and evolution of complex software must involve the different stakeholders concurrently and collaboratively. The hard problem is providing computer suppo...
In this paper we present how to use the Agent MOdeling LAnguage (AMOLA) to define agent interaction protocols and how to integrate these in an agent model. AMOLA provides the synt...
A number of applications that use GIS for decision support can potentially be enhanced by the use of high-performance computers, broadband networks and mass data stores. We descri...
Paul D. Coddington, Kenneth A. Hawick, Heath A. Ja...
Van der Aalst recently proposed a set of workflow patterns to characterize the kinds of control flow that appear frequently in workflow processes. These patterns are useful for eva...
William R. Cook, Sourabh Patwardhan, Jayadev Misra
Scheduling tasks on large-scale computational grids is difficult due to the heterogeneous computational capabilities of the resources, node unavailability and unreliable network ...