Purpose – This paper aims to address some security issues in open systems such as service-oriented applications and grid computing. It proposes a security framework for these sy...
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...
Traditionally, top-down and bottom-up design approaches have competed with each other in Algorithmics and Software Engineering. In the top-down approach, design process starts wit...
In this paper we describe the design of a relational agent interface for handheld computers and the results of a study exploring the effectiveness of different useragent interacti...
—“Autonomic systems” merge advancements in the field of multi-agent software design, dynamic analysis, and decentralized control in order to assist designers in constructing...