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 systems comprised of autonomous self-interested entities require some sort of control mechanism to ensure the predictability of the interactions that drive them. This ...
Felipe Rech Meneguzzi, Simon Miles, Michael Luck, ...
This paper describes "Second Life" as a novel type of testbed and simulation environment for sensor-based applications. Second Life is a popular virtual online world tha...
Boris Brandherm, Sebastian Ullrich, Helmut Prendin...
Future space missions such as the Mars Science Laboratory demand the engineering of some of the most complex manrated autonomous software systems. According to some recent estimat...
Damian Dechev, Nicolas Rouquette, Peter Pirkelbaue...
Introducing enterprise information systems (EIS) is usually associated with high costs. It is therefore crucial to understand those factors that determine or influence these costs....