In response to the occurrence of an air incident, controllers at one of the three Canadian Rescue Coordination Centers (RCC) must make a series of critical decisions on the appropr...
This paper focuses on coordination middleware for distributed applications based on active documents and XML technologies. It introduces the main concepts underlying active docume...
Paolo Ciancarini, Robert Tolksdorf, Franco Zambone...
Abstract: Observation is a fundamental interaction pattern in today's computerbased systems. Adopting observation as the main modelling criterion, computer-based systems can b...
We present a demonstration of a multi-agent prototype for distributed planning and coordination in dynamic non-deterministic multi-actor mixed-initiative environments. The system ...
— We consider the problem of task assignment and execution in multirobot systems, by proposing a procedure for bid estimation in auction protocols. Auctions are of interest to mu...