Abstract— This paper presents a gentle system for supervising care-support services that fulfill users’ actual requirements based on their physical locations and statuses of s...
We describe a language providing concepts for modeling autonomous entities (agents) and cooperating entities (groups). Agents are the execution units of a GroupLog program. Each a...
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...
Abstract--In the network-centric computing era, applications often involve sets of autonomous, unpredictable, and possibly mobile entities interacting within open, dynamic, and pos...
Abstract One of the most significant paradigm shifts of modern business management is that individual businesses no longer compete as autonomous entities but rather as supply chain...
Areti Manataki, Yun-Heh Chen-Burger, Michael Rovat...