In systems of autonomous self-interested agents, in which agents' neighbourhoods are defined by their connections to others, cooperation can arise through observation of the ...
This paper presents a role-based agent teamwork language called RoB-MALLET (Role-Based Multi-Agent Logic Language for Encoding Teamwork). Roles have been used to form multi-agent t...
Network Control is currently carried out mainly by means of signalling protocols. Although these protocols are robust and facilitate standardisation, they present several drawback...
— Industry is more and more interested in executing business functions that span multiple applications. This demands high-levels of interoperability and a more flexible and adapt...
Parallel computing has become an important research field in the last years. The availability of hardware and the success of grid computing have motivated this interest. In this pa...