In the 21st century it is becoming increasingly common to work and learn in teams that are globally distributed. Such teams rely heavily on ICT to facilitate communication. There ...
Agents are a useful abstraction frequently employed as a basic building block in modeling service, information and resource sharing in global environments. The connecting of reques...
Many real-world applications of multiagent systems require independently designed (heterogeneous) and operated (autonomous) agents to interoperate. We consider agents who offer bu...
Matteo Baldoni, Cristina Baroglio, Amit K. Chopra,...
Loose coupling is a common way of organizing collaboration in work groups, but it has not been studied extensively in CSCW. In this paper, we consider the patterns of work that ar...
Abstract. Todays information systems are built using various component models such as Enterprise Java Beans, JavaBeans, Microsoft COM+, and CORBA distributed objects. In this paper...