Applications that operate in highly dynamic environments must deal with real-time changes of circumstances in order to be consistent and coherent. In this work, we propose an exten...
Through adjustable autonomy (AA), an agent can dynamically vary the degree to which it acts autonomously, allowing it to exploit human abilities to improve its performance, but wi...
—We investigate the issue of designing a kernel programming language for mobile computing and describe KLAIM, a language that supports a programming paradigm where processes, lik...
Rocco De Nicola, Gian Luigi Ferrari, Rosario Pugli...
One of the major setback preventing the mobile agent technology from being widely exploited is a lack of interoperability between heterogeneous mobile agent systems. In this paper...
In this paper we consider the problem of managing and exploiting schedules in an uncertain and distributed environment. We assume a team of collaborative agents, each responsible ...
Stephen F. Smith, Anthony Gallagher, Terry L. Zimm...