Mechatronic systems are embedded software systems with hard real-time requirements. Predictability is of paramount importance for these systems. Thus, their design has to take the...
Sven Burmester, Matthias Gehrke, Holger Giese, Sim...
Processes for crisis mitigation must permit coordination flexibility and dynamic change to empower crisis mitigation coordinators and experts to deal with the unexpected situatio...
Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Hans Schuster, Donald Ba...
Past years have witnessed a growing interest in automated negotiation as a coordination mechanism for interacting agents. This paper presents a generic, problem- and domain-indepen...
This paper presents an argumentation-based approach to deliberation, the process by which two or more agents reach a consensus on a course of action. The kind of deliberation we a...
Mobile ad hoc networks are collections of mobile nodes without any fixed infrastructure or central co-ordinating mechanism for packet routing. Consequently, routing is a challenge...