This paper describes the addition of an extra piece of software, a rollback manager, to implement state saving and rollback management for optimistic federates in the High Level A...
Activity spaces are usually task-specific and only common to a group of people who work together in a certain application domain. It is desirable to enable users to define and mod...
The term software engineering arose in the 1960s to emphasize that the production of software should not be an art, as it was then (and sometimes still is today), but an engineeri...
Currently, the interest in Ambient Intelligence (or AmI) has increased exponentially due to the widespread use of portable devices. Users demand more and more functionality from t...
In cooperative multi-agent systems, roles are used as a design concept when creating large systems, they are known to facilitate specialization of agents, and they can help to redu...