Providing an integrated access to multiple heterogeneous sources is a challenging issue in global information systems for cooperation and interoperability. In the past, companies h...
Most of the proposed approaches in automatic service selection assume the existence of a common ontology among communicating agents. However, this assumption becomes difficult to...
With the rapid expansion of the Internet, the implementation of agent technology in electronic commerce (e-commerce) becomes very popular, which provides a promising field for the...
Intelligent coordination in complex multi-agent environments requires sophisticated mechanisms for suboptimal task decomposition and efficient resource allocation provided by the t...
To coordinate with other agents in its environment, an agent needs models of what the other agents are trying to do. When communication is impossible or expensive, this informatio...
Marcus J. Huber, Edmund H. Durfee, Michael P. Well...