Information explosion across the Internet and elsewhere offers access to an increasing number of document collections. In order for users to e ectively access these collections, i...
Most real-world negotiation scenarios involve multiple, interdependent issues. These scenarios are specially challenging because the agents' utility functions are nonlinear, ...
For successful coordination and cooperation in a multiagent system, participants need to establish a sufficiently accurate awareness of the current situation. Awareness is underst...
Abstract. This paper introduces ThreadMill - a distributed and parallel component architecture for applications that process large volumes of streamed (time-sequenced) data, such a...
Abstract. We discuss a case study for the hospital scenario where workflow model components are distributed across various computers or devices (e.g. mobile phones, PDAs, sensors, ...