This article aims to provide foundations for a new approach to Agent Communication Languages (ACLs). First, we present the theory of signalling acts. In contrast to current approa...
Cooperation among autonomous agents has been discussed in the DAI community for several years. Papers about cooperation 6,45 , negotiation 33 , distributed planning 5 , and coalit...
Situated software systems are an emerging class of systems that are predominantly pervasive, embedded, and mobile. They are marked with a high degree of unpredictability and dynam...
Deshan Cooray, Sam Malek, Roshanak Roshandel, Davi...
A SystemC simulation kernel consists of a deterministic implementation of the scheduler, whose specification is nondeterministic. To leverage testing of a SystemC TLM design, we f...
: In this paper, we propose an autonomic management framework (ASGrid) to address the requirements of emerging large-scale applications in hybrid grid and sensor network systems. T...