Negotiation is a fundamental mechanism in distributed multi-agent systems. Since negotiation is a time-spending process, in many scenarios agents have to take into account the pas...
The notion of maintenance often appears in the AI literature in the context of agent behavior and planning. In this paper, we argue that earlier characterizations of the notion of...
Background: Clinical protocols and guidelines have been considered as a major means to ensure that cost-effective services are provided at the point of care. Recently, the comput...
Bo Hu, Srinandan Dasmahapatra, David Robertson, Pa...
Service-based systems have many applications, including collaborative research and development, e-business, health care, environmental control, military applications, and homeland...
Stephen S. Yau, Hasan Davulcu, Supratik Mukhopadhy...
One specific problem in wide-area distributed computing environment is effective management of the vast amount of resources that are made available within the grid environment. Th...
Ghazala Shaheen, Muhammad Usman Malik, Zohair Ihsa...