Gaining wide acceptance for the use of agents in industry requires both relating it to the nearest antecedent technology (objectoriented software development) and using artifacts t...
Web services (WS) provide a technology for integrating applications over the Internet. This paper proposes a multi-agent conceptual model of WS and an agent-oriented modelling and...
This research concerns the definition of a service-oriented approach for business processes modeling. Business services are reusable process units that contain one or several proc...
This paper presents a model of Parts Distribution Center (PDC), developed in Arena® 5.0, which aims at providing information about the total time of the retrieving process as the...
Abstract. Issues related to technology, including diffusion, acceptance, adoption, and adaptation, have been the focus of research for different disciplines including Information S...