Abstract. Integration is one of the pivotal concepts with respect to analyzing, designing and evaluating information systems. Integrating software components as well as integrating...
Information Systems (IS) design research tends to emphasise the development of new methods (normative research), while addressing the evaluation of methods in only a limited fashi...
Abstract. A crucial part of multi-agent system design is the design of agent interactions. Traditional approaches to designing agent interaction use interaction protocols, which fo...
Due to the different nature of the available dynamic interactions between components afforded by some middleware infrastructure, distributed information systems (DIS) behave differ...
This paper is concerned with merging globally rigid formations of mobile autonomous agents. A key element in all future multi-agent systems will be the role of sensor and communic...
Tolga Eren, Brian D. O. Anderson, Walter Whiteley,...