Scientific experiments are supported by activities that create, use, communicate and distribute information whose organizational dynamics is similar to processes performed by distr...
We present OKEANOS, a distributed service-based agent framework implemented in Java, in which agents can act autonomously and make use of stationary services. Each agent's beh...
Ralf-Dieter Schimkat, Wolfgang Blochinger, Carsten...
Abstract. A strong research emphasis is being given towards regulating interoperable multi-agent environments through norms and institutions. We are concerned with environments in ...
Web service composition provision which requires efficient coordination of the execution of component services is a critical issue in service-oriented computing. Nowadays, BPEL4WS...
Jun Yan, Phillip Pidgeon, Aneesh Krishna, Jianming...
that negotiation is a powerful abstract notion for the coordination of generic services available from distributed components. This is the main motivation underlying the developme...