Open systems are characterized by heterogeneous participants which can enter or leave the system at will. Typical examples are e-commerce applications or information agent systems...
System performance in multi-agent resource allocation systems can often improve if individual agents reduce their activity. Agents in such systems need a way to modulate their ind...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Sven Brueckner, Robert S. Mat...
Effective human teams often benefit from proactivity through members’ capability of anticipating different needs of teammates. In this paper, we focus on three issues related...
John Yen, Xiaocong Fan, Shuang Sun, Rui Wang, Cong...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has been increasingly gaining interest. P2P architectures are no longer just used for sharing music files over the InP2P middleware systems attempt to...
Roman Kurmanowytsch, Engin Kirda, Clemens Kerer, S...
Due to the fast growth of internet based electronic business activities, languages for modeling as well as methods for analyzing and executing distributed business processes are be...