It is widely accepted in Distributed Artificial Intelligence that a crucial property of artificial agents is their autonomy. Whereas agent autonomy enables features of agent-base...
From a software engineering perspective, agent systems are a specialization of object-oriented (OO) systems, in which individual objects have their own threads of control and thei...
This paper describes a strategy for modeling and engineering complex e-business systems with built-in quality of adaptiveness. The paper explains the philosophical and scientific ...
Abstract. For several reasons enterprises are frequently subject to organizational change. Respective adaptations may concern business processes, but also other components of an en...
Increasingly, information systems development occurs in the context of existing systems and established organizational processes. Viewing organizational and system components as c...
Eric S. K. Yu, Philippe Du Bois, Eric Dubois, John...