Abstract. There are many domains in which a multi-agent system needs to maximize a "system utility" function which rates the performance of the entire system, while subje...
Delayed arrivals, missing tag codes, flight changes, break-downs, etc. are some of the factors, which make the environment of airport baggage handling systems (BHS) extremely dyn...
An approach to extend process monitoring with the help of information agents (IA) handling semantic data is presented in this paper. According to this approach, an operator of a pr...
Teppo Pirttioja, Ilkka Seilonen, Antti Pakonen, Aa...
A virtual organization (VO) is a dynamic collection of entities (individuals, enterprises, and information resources) collaborating on some computational activity. VOs are an emer...