Responsive environments are physical surroundings whose components change their behaviour to accommodate the presence of people as well as other components. We describe a means to ...
Abstract—We are interested in the problem of multiagent systems development for risk detecting and emergency response in an uncertain and partially perceived environment. The eva...
—Application mobility is an efficient way to mask uneven conditioning and reduce users’ distractions in pervasive environments. However, since mobility brings more dynamism and...
This paper discusses the use of simulation in a new context. Most often QUEST is viewed as a stand-alone simulation tool to analyze and understand shop floor behavior. It has rare...
A new methodology is presented in this paper for resource management in a metacomputing environment using a hierarchy of homogeneous agents that has the capability of service disco...