Abstract. Today’s software platforms that support the construction of agent systems in accordance with the FIPA specifications essentially provide enabling infrastructure servic...
Next generation applications and architectures (for example, Grids) are driving radical changes in the nature of traffic, service models, technology, and cost, creating opportunit...
Tal Lavian, Joe Mambretti, Doug Cutrell, Howard J....
This paper discusses ongoing research on scientific workflows at the Institute of Computing, University of Campinas (IC - UNICAMP) Brazil. Our projects with bio-scientists have le...
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, José de Jesús Pérez Al...
Mobile agents, programs that move within a system performing a set of tasks, are an active field of research. The focus of current research, however, is on the development of exe...
Many challenges are associated with the integration of geographic information systems (GISs) with models in specific applications. One of them is adapting models to the environmen...