Autonomy is regarded as a crucial notion in multi-agent systems and several researchers have tried to identify what are the agent's parts that give it an autonomous character....
Abstract. Support for new forms of organization and social interaction requires understanding the influence of structure on behavior. Goal dependencies indicate some relationship b...
For knowledge representation based on ontology and its use, it is desirable to understand phenomena in the target world as precisely and deeply as possible. The ontology should ref...
Factory physics provides a systematic description, expressed as laws, of the underlying behavior of a system. These laws can provide important assistance in performing simulation ...
Software as a Service (SaaS) and the possibility to compose Web services provisioned over the Internet are important assets for a service-oriented architecture (SOA). However, the ...
Florian Rosenberg, Philipp Leitner, Anton Michlmay...