Advances in computer networks that support the invocation of remote services in heterogeneous environments enable new levels of software composition. In order to manage composition...
Abstract. A central issue in autonomic management is how to coordinate several autonomic management processes, which is assumed to require significant knowledge exchange. This stu...
Organisations can be defined as a set of entities regulated by mechanisms of social order and created by more or less autonomous actors to achieve common goals. Multi-agent systems...
In a supply chain organized as a network of autonomous enterprises, the main objective of each partner is to optimize his production and supply policy with respect to his own econ...
Systems that act autonomously in the environment have to be able to integrate three basic behaviors: planning, execution, and learning. Planning involves describing a set of action...