Queries on software artifacts play an important role in novel software development approaches, such as Aspect-Oriented Software Development and OMG's Model Driven Architecture...
One approach to agent communication is to insist that agents not only send messages, but support them with reasons why those messages are appropriate. This is argumentation-based c...
Abstract. Market-based approaches have a long tradition in supporting of taskassignment multiagent systems. Such systems consist of customer agents with jobs to assign, and provide...
The degree of a rational map measures how often the map covers the image variety. In particular, when the rational map is a parametrization, the degree measures how often the para...
This paper deals with the Assembly Line Balancing Problem considering incompatibilities between the tasks with the aim of, first, minimizing the number of workstations and, then, ...