Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
1 On the Internet, digitally active small and medium sized enterprises (SME) face numerous security risks. When SMEs join networks, business ideas and malicious activities may inte...
One of the main objectives in engineering departments of large industries is the implementation of integrated information systems to manage their projects' life cycle. EnViro...
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In the modern design environments, different modules, available in existent libraries, may obey different architectural styles and execution models. Reaching a well– behaved com...
Today, companies and their information systems are facing a very dynamic and fast changing environment. Fast changing demands require varying information in varying places. Users ...