Abstract. Scheduling staff shift work in a hospital ward is a well-known problem in the operation research field but, as such, it is very often studied from the algorithmic point o...
Carmelo Ardito, Paolo Buono, Maria Francesca Costa...
The general aim of our work is to provide tools, methods and models to adaptive multi-agent systems designers. These systems consist in several interacting agents and have to optim...
Software agents' ability to interact within different open systems, designed by different groups, presupposes an agreement on an unambiguous definition of a set of concepts, ...
In open systems where the components, i.e. the agents and the resources, may be unknown at design time, or in dynamic and self-organizing systems evolving with time, there is a ne...
In this paper we present the Behaviosite Paradigm, a new approach to coordination and control of distributed agents in a multiagent system, inspired by biological parasites with b...
Amit Shabtay, Zinovi Rabinovich, Jeffrey S. Rosens...