Organisations may wish to use a standards-defined distributed system in a global sense but also have a requirement for non-standard local behaviour. This reflects the production...
Nickolas J. G. Falkner, Paul D. Coddington, Andrew...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...
The internet causes a continuous emergence of novel forms of scholarly communication and collaboration. Electronic publishing provides a means for representing eventual outcomes o...
Wolfram Horstmann, Peter Reimer, Jochen Schirrwage...
This paper describes a framework for collaboration between a user and a multi-agent system to achieve adjustable autonomy. Adjustable autonomy (AA) is when the levels of autonomy ...
Semantic Web Fred, SWF for short, is a contextindependent, goal-driven system for automated execution of tasks that are delegated to electronic representatives along with dynamic ...
Michael Stollberg, Dumitru Roman, Ioan Toma, Uwe K...