Current research in the area of manufacturing planning and control has moved away from traditional centralized solutions towards distributed architectures that range from hierarch...
This paper outlines an aspect-oriented approach to support separation and modularization of crosscutting concerns in multi-agent systems. Aspects as abstractions to capture social ...
Carla T. L. L. Silva, Jaelson Brelaz de Castro, Jo...
Nowadays, most multiagent platforms are internally designed as middleware and are usually implemented in Java and run on top of an operating system. This kind of design maximizes ...
Many researchers are devising algorithms for task placement in distributed systems, but few are designing the necessary mechanisms to provide the information required by those alg...
Service-Oriented Computing and Agent Technology are nowadays two of the most active research fields in distributed and open systems. However, when trying to bridge the two worlds,...