The design of virtual workplaces that can support virtual work processes has traditionally been either ad-hoc, or has been influenced by the top-down approaches, such as ‘virtua...
There is a growing demand for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in the software industry. The autonomous agent interaction in a dynamic software environment can potentially lead to runtim...
A system built in terms of autonomous agents may require even greater correctness assurance than one which is merely reacting to the immediate control of its users. Agents make su...
Cu D. Nguyen, Anna Perini, Paolo Tonella, Simon Mi...
Pervasive services may be defined as services that are available to any client (anytime, anywhere). Here we focus on the software and network infrastructure required to support pe...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, ...
An Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a standards-based integration platform that combines messaging, web services, data transformation, and intelligent routing in a highly distribut...