This chapter aims to introduce the reader to the basic issues surrounding the design and implementation of intelligent agents. It begins by motivating the idea of an agent, present...
Virtual organisations within and across enterprise structures are becoming mature as a potentially effective means for goal oriented business teamwork. Among the plentyful of supp...
Information Technology has become a core activity in most, if not all, corporations. Although IT managers continue to be under-represented in executive management, the very centra...
In this paper we present an architecture for internet-mediated simulation games. The challenge was to use today's state of the art technologies to provide a simulated environ...
Decision making based on the comparison of multiple criteria of two or more alternatives, is the subject of intensive research. In many decision making situations, a single criter...
Alfons Schuster, Werner Dubitzky, Philippe Lopes, ...