Agents in open multi-agent systems (MAS) need means for locating other agents with which they may collaborate. To address this need, several agent location mechanisms were suggest...
A HDD template is designed and developed for modeling and simulation for final assembly of hard disk drive (HDD) manufacturing using Arena. The designed HDD template is a high fle...
The next generation Grid will demand the Grid middleware to provide flexibility, transparency, and reliability. This implies the appliance of service level agreements to guarantee...
The importance of dialog management systems has increased in recent years. Dialog systems are created for domain specific applications, so that a high demand for a flexible dialog...
This paper comes back to the problem of coordination of cooperative activities with a Workflow management system. First, we describe the differences that we have noted between busi...