The emerging standards for the specification of Web Services support the publication of the static interfaces of the operations they may execute. However, little attention is paid...
A significant body of work in multiagent systems over more than two decades has focused on multi-agent coordination (1). Many challenges in multi-agent coordination can be modeled ...
The emerging science of simulation enables us to explore the dynamics of large and complex systems even if a formal representation and analysis of the system is intractable and a ...
Virtual Organizations (VOs) are becoming an increasingly important research topic in the field of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). The problem of selecting suitable counterparts to inte...
Distributed information systems for decision support and e-commerce applications require coordination of multiple autonomous components and their services to accomplish a set of g...