In this paper we present a decision making framework to enable agents to dynamically select a coordination mechanism. To demonstrate our approach we introduce an abstract task env...
Mattijs Ghijsen, Wouter N. H. Jansweijer, Bob J. W...
Workflow management, one of the important technologies for supporting collaborative work, requires database technologies like distributed data management or transaction management...
Agents in an organization need to coordinate their actions in order to reach the organizational goals. Organizational models specify the desired behaviour in terms of roles, relati...
Bob van der Vecht, Frank Dignum, John-Jules Ch. Me...
Abstract--Recent works proposed the adoption of a natureinspired approach of chemistry for implementing service architectures suitable for pervasive applications [34]. In particula...
Elena Nardini, Mirko Viroli, Matteo Casadei, Andre...
Coordinating the activities of distributed autonomous entities challenges traditional approaches to distributed coordination and calls for new paradigms and supporting middleware....