In this paper we show how imposing an organization (topology and search mechanism) on agents in a peerto-peer network can improve system performance. The organizational structure ...
The increased fluidity and agility of organizations demand the smooth mediation of information technology (IT) between user and task. As rigid hierarchies are giving way to open, ...
Flexible and distributed management systems based on mobile agents have certain advantages over centralized and static management architectures. However, security plays a decisive...
In this paper we present Mob, a service-oriented scripting language for programming mobile agents in distributed systems. The main feature of the language is the integration of th...
Recently there is an increased interest in social agency and in designing and building organizations of agents. In this paper we view an organization as an interrelated set of grou...