Cooperation and autonomy are two antagonistic core variables of agent-based systems, and a key challenge in designing such systems is to balance these variables appropriately. Thi...
Organizations invest in the development of knowledge repositories (KR) to foster knowledge reuse and integration. Yet many KR initiatives fail to meet expectations, in part becaus...
This paper describes a new approach to programming autonomic systems. Autonomic functions are integrated into element objects at design time using a special language called JSpoon...
We describe a VRML/Java-based virtual environment that is populated with heterogeneous articulated agents. In this simulated environment, agents compete for collecting certain obj...
The problem of partner finding is to identify which entities (agents) can provide requested services from a group of entities. It can be found in open and distributed environment...